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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

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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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Thank you

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Kent Beck is deservedly famous for his many contributions in the software industry. Entrepreneurship is the life-blood of our global civilization. Expo Intensive rocked, the mainstream media has started writing about the Lean Startup, and - most of all - the movement continues to grow and evolve. And then you can buy a t-shirt.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

MUDs made the essential truth about software into a powerful metaphor: that code is magic, giving those who wield it the ability to create new forms of value literally out of thin air. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. these devices all need human instruction to enable correct and desired operation.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

They just assumed it was the way software companies worked. Unfortunately, threats work a lot better at incentivizing people to CYA than getting them to write quality software. When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. Sound good? It didnt work.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Once we can see opportunities for truly global efficiency gains, all that remains is to ensure our team actually makes room for those investments. To do that, we add specific speed regulators, like integrating source control with our continuous integration server or the more elaborate dance required for continuous deployment.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? Id like to see if we can come up with policy suggestions, concerns, or questions that might promote entrepreneurship generally - and globally. Ease the process for startups to get access to global talent.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

In some businesses, especially in certain industries like traditional enterprise software, you simply cannot bring a new product to market on your own. As weve quietly signed up dozens of paying customers for our software (and kept them), Ive faced intense pressure from family, friends, staff, even our attorneys, to just "Launch".