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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.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

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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Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator’s first graduates head to Silicon Valley

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator , one of the many, many startup accelerators in Europe, is taking the first class of startups who’ve graduated from its six-month program stateside this month. Wercker : a continuous deployment solution for software developers, hosted in the cloud.

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Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond"

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Kent is a significant figure in the field of software development. To his credit are Extreme Programming , jUnit, patterns, TDD , the list goes on. Kent is a significant figure in the field of software development. To his credit are Extreme Programming , jUnit, patterns, TDD , the list goes on.

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Beyond the garage

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. He’s one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the past few decades, and has continued to support the startup ecosystem as an investor and mentor.

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What is Lean about the Lean Startup?

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2009

For those whove heard it, it contains a length discourse on the subject of agile software development and extreme programming, including its weaknesses when applied to startups. I assumed he was there to refute my critique of extreme programming, but nothing could be further from the truth. Was that really the Kent Beck?

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. I also owe a great debt to Kent Beck, whose Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change was my first introduction to this kind of thinking. (So Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

Customer Development

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time).

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. Luckily for me, my co-founders eventually prevailed and we went on to build a product that customers actually wanted. Expo (and a call for he.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." You can tell a lot about a company from their deployment flow. After an hour with a team talking dirty about deployment, youll know. How fast do they iterate?

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team. I have personally taught many “non-technical&# people to program – graphic designers, QA folks, even artists and animators.

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The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Agile Vancouver : Lean Development for Lean Times On Tuesday April 21st, we are hosting an afternoon event on the application of Lean Principles to software development. This workshop brings together leading thinkers from Lean Production and Lean software. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Consider the classic project that was essential to the creation of extreme programming , the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System. This was to be a new piece of software to run payroll for Chrysler. What causes projects like this to fail in traditional software development is that the solution is unknown.

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I believe this is one reason why the myth of the dictatorial startup founder has such enduring appeal. Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. I believe this is one reason why the myth of the dictatorial startup founder has such enduring appeal.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

TDD plus continuous integration works as a natural feedback loop: if the team is working "too fast" to produce quality code reliably, tests fail, which requires the team to slow down and fix them. Use pair programming and collective code ownership. Pair programming is the most radical, but also the most helpful.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

For startups that are tempted to mimic this behavior, I suggest reading the great account of the early Apple in Founders at Work.) ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, This will be an in-depth discussion with a handful of entrepreneurs and founders that have been pre-selected. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? for Harvard Business Revie.

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How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

These problems can be anything: development mistakes, site outages, marketing program failures, or even internal missed schedules. I pick that example on purpose, for two reasons: 1) most of the companies I work with deal with this problem and yet 2) almost none of them have any kind of training program in place for new employees.

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Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups. Fortunately, my co-founders are also engineers and understand the need for some of the stuff I do. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Why Continuous Deployment?

Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

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Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator’s first graduates head to Silicon Valley

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond"

Beyond the garage

What is Lean about the Lean Startup?

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Lessons Learned: About the author

Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

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

On deployment

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st

Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Good enough never is (or is it?)

Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

The Steve Jobs method

Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three

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