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Why Continuous Deployment?

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 15, 2009 Why Continuous Deployment? Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

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is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Continuous deployment and continuous learning At long last, some of the actual implementers of the advanced systems we built at IMVU for rapid deployment and rapid response are starting to write about it. Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

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If youre making revenue, you should be finding ways to grow it predictably month-over-month; if youre focused on customer engagement, your product should be getting more sticky, and so on. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

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This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Expo SF (May.

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Marching through quicksand

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The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. What is the right revenue model? Gatekeepers are overloaded. In other words, what is the minimum viable product ?

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How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

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oh, and on the book front, you'll be able to get all of my essays so far in ebook, print-on-demand, and kindle editions - coming soon. We just add up the revenue we've made in the past few months from Win98 users, and compare to the pain that Win98 has caused as identified in 5Ys. They seem to be liking it. (oh, Expo SF (May.