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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

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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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Often, in very young organizations, those people are simply the founders. Now, “lean” is often used to refer to a company’s financial situation, so it might make you think of a bootstrapped or under-funded organization. So if you’ve got advice to share on implementing a continuous deployment framework, for example, we’re all eyes.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Well, that’s fine as far as it goes but when you’re a startup and you don’t have customers yet you need a way to bootstrap and that can feel awfully chaotic and wasteful. Following XP puts you in a good place to start doing continuous improvement. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

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As someone who has bootstrapped a software company ([link] and funded it through selling software and consulting to customers, I certainly know what it means to live lean and Ive even taken your advice ([link] I just wish I was in the Bay area and could come by "office hours". Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

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It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. This is an incredible skill, one that most engineers overlook. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. This model of joint accountability is at the heart of the lean startup, and is just as applicable to venture-backed, bootstrapped, and enterprise startups. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

These case studies range in size and scope: from pre-product/market fit to already exited, bootstrapped to venture-backed, solo practitioner to large organization. Doesnt the communication overhead of a large team lead to chaos of overlapping experiments and continuously-deployed bugs?" "If Were in pursuit of the truth, not orthodoxy.