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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

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And Don Reinertsen will teach you how to calculate and weigh the implications of Cost of Delay —the monetary value of a week of cycle time for experiments—information that will change the way your organization runs experiments. Thus we reduce the risk of deployments. How do you address that? Register today to get yours.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

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. At IMVU it’s a core part of our culture to ship.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. When operating with continuous deployment, its almost impossible to have integration conflicts. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Small is beautiful.

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Continuous deployment with downloads

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 16, 2009 Continuous deployment with downloads One of my goals in writing posts about topics like continuous deployment is the hope that people will take those ideas and apply them to new situations - and then share what they learn with the rest of us.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Whether they also lead to dramatically higher returns for investors is a question Im looking forward to studying.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

It seems many startups these days are under a lot of pressure to outsource their development organization to save costs. Still, I thought Id share this email that happened to arrive during class. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said.