Continuous Deployment, Demand, Engineer and Operations

Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

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.

Continuous Deployment

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Turns out, there was aboslutely no demand whatsoever for that particular product.

Demand

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way.

Agile

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design. The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it.

Technical Review

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Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

At Toyota , they are called Chief Engineer : Toyota realizes that the Chief Engineer job is probably the most important one in the company because the Chief Engineer listens to the customer and then determines what the functions need to do to address the customer’s desires. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

San Francisco

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. . Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

Lean

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

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. . Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

San Francisco

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Periodic or on-demand reports are one possibility, but we can do much better. That’s why we have operations alerts trigger a page, but it can also work for other customer events. This is true for split-testing features, but it’s also true for marketing programs or even operations changes. We can learn to see.

San Francisco

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. . Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

Customer Development

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. PayPal, under the leadership of David Marcus and Bill Scott, re-defining and re-engineering itself by embracing Lean Startup to improve the product experience.

Lean

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. Its why, at my previous job, we were able to get a new engineer completely productive on their first day. How do you get started with five whys?

Software Review

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. I have found this quite rare in engineers. Many of us engineers are strong introverts, without fantastic people skills.

San Francisco

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Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. . Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

Advertising

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Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

FYI the surveymonkey link isnt operational. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. . November 24, 2008 2:44 PM Eric said.

San Francisco

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. . Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

Silicon Valley

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

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

For example, should we invest a week of engineering time into making our website more failure-proof (which were pretty sure will pay off right away) or into experimenting with a new technology (that might pay off in months, years, or never)? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Lets get to the answers.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Lessons Learned: Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 22, 2008 Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to measure customer satisfaction Ive mentioned Net Promoter Score (NPS) in a few previous posts, but havent had a chance to describe it in detail yet. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. What is customer development?

.Net

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

In the world of startups, this is like trying to sell a product to a very demanding customer who needs to see a lot of features before buying. Twenty years from now, operating systems might also work as a good metaphor. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Tough sell. Resegmented market (low cost variety).

San Francisco

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Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Wed train them on-demand as they came in, and send them into the world (or onto the phones) with written instructions and voter contact data. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

Campaign

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

It took hundreds of years for newspapers to learn to behave as worthy holders of this public trust and cover the news without fear or favour, and create a firewall between news and views and the ad-sales side of the operation. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. So I gave up.

Community

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Why Continuous Deployment?

Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Embrace technical debt

Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

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

Datablindness

Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

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

Lessons Learned: Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to.

Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

The cardinal sin of community management

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