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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Continuous Deployment is Continuous Flow applied to software.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

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Imagine a general manager that has read The Innovator’s Dilemma and related books, and is therefore trying hard to help her organization make a transition to a new product category via disruptive innovation. Still, this manager is going to spend the company’s money, and needs to be held accountable. So far, so good.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

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Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. And yet, when I suggest this practice to hiring managers and recruiters alike, they rarely do it. So why is demographic diversity important?

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

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But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Marching through quicksand

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In the old days, the brand manager of a consumer packaged goods product had to spend energy inferring the effectiveness of their television ads through a combination of trailing indicators (like market share) or time-consuming market research. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. Is that a lot?

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

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Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. And yet, their investors are frustrated.

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Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds When I wrote earlier about how to conduct a good technical interview , I had only a few things to say about how to assess if the candidate fits in with the team, including this: This responsibility falls squarely to the hiring manager.