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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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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. Nothing worked, until we finally had one of our community managers start talking to real customers on the phone.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Each five whys email is a teaching document. We had made so many improvements to our tools and processes for deployment, that it was pretty hard to take the site down. As a management consultant who concentrates on thinking and problem solving, I use it often. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

Software development is all about managing complexity and the bigger and more mature the codebase gets, the more complex it gets. The new process let us manage the velocity of change in the codebase low, keeping the resistance manageable. Continuous deployment: A key component of speed is to keep pushing out work.

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

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They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? So launches become an emergent property of the system.

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