2009, Blog and Continuous Deployment

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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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Continuous Deployment is Continuous Flow applied to software.

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Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 28, 2009 Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications Having evangelized the concept of continuous deployment for the past few years, Ive come into contact with almost every conceivable question, objection, or concern that people have about it.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. February 21, 2009 7:39 AM Rocky1138 said.

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Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot (The following guest post is a new experiment for this blog. If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuous deployment is a must-see; slides are here. kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. I hope you take something of value from this blog. Eric, love the blog. Thanks for your professional blog. So thats me, your author.

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Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond"

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

April 27, 2009 8:59 AM Anonymoussaid. July 15, 2009 11:18 PM markmontgomery said. Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said. Great blog! Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Otherwise it's a great idea. Good stuff.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

This is one of the blog we posted about how some company is doing SEO to promote the website. To help find the right keywords, Ive written an article on my blog Web Startup Help that details How to Do Keyword Research for startups. This post has been removed by a blog administrator. February 7, 2009 5:40 AM Major_Grooves said.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Labels: agile , continuous deployment 1 comments: timothyfitz said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Building a new startup hub Last week, I had a unique opportunity to spend some time in Boulder at the behest of TechStars. Inspiring ideas: real-time biz metrics; safe continuous deployment; A/B split testing. August 28, 2009 1:15 PM Derek Scruggs said.

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The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

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Technical Review

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. March 16, 2009 11:18 PM William Pietri said. March 17, 2009 9:21 AM Eric said. March 17, 2009 9:39 AM Mike Tobias said. Just a thought.

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Amazing lean startup resources

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Beyond my own efforts on this blog ( and more ), there is now an amazing variety of resources for lean startup practitioners. When I first started blogging, the startup blogging mafia immediately came to meet me and find out who I was: Dave McClure , Andrew Chen , Sean Ellis and Venture Hacks. Have a favorite who I overlooked?

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. If you want to do continuous deployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. May 15, 2009 1:17 AM neocoder said.

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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, February 22, 2009 Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Of course, what I really mean is: let them teach themselves. February 22, 2009 5:54 PM CapnCleaver said. February 22, 2009 10:14 PM Aleks said. February 23, 2009 2:22 AM Clement said. February 23, 2009 9:23 AM Clement said.

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Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? (for Harvard Business.

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Although much of it will sound familiar to readers of this blog, whats new is my first step towards the " new entrepreneurship " that is my goal for 2010. Unlike previous cross-posting Ive done for blogs, where a lot of the discussion happens here, Id like to ask you to take a minute and click through to read the full article.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I would love to see some blog posts on any experiences you have had with set-based design. January 18, 2009 8:22 AM Dan Khan said. Cheers, -Dan January 18, 2009 9:04 PM Ivo said. January 20, 2009 1:12 PM Anonymoussaid. April 12, 2009 12:28 AM kenshin said. April 21, 2009 4:51 PM Geethan said. Great piece!

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Lean Startup fbFund slides and video

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 6, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund slides and video As a follow-up to my previous post on my talk for fbFund at Facebook , there was enough interest in watching video of the talk that I have finally uploaded it using Apples MobileMe. July 6, 2009 4:21 PM Anonymoussaid. wow this blog is god awful.

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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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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. Continuous learning -> Continuous feedback!

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

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 9, 2009 The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 The current macroeconomic climate presents unparalleled opportunities for those that can thrive with constrained resources. February 9, 2009 7:45 PM Joseph Flahiff said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Ive written about it on our development blog at [link] October 6, 2008 3:34 PM Chris Hondl said. If the team is continually falling behind, it would seem that these teams were no fully aware of their expectations to begin with. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 30, 2009 Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder Im very excited to announce a pair of events that will kick off a very busy fall speaking tour. Brad Feld also had some thoughts on this event on his blog. July 30, 2009 7:35 AM Hazem Awad said. Ill be in Boulder for two days.

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Lessons Learned: Ideas. Code. Data. Implement. Measure. Learn

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Were trying to put some of these "its the system, stupid" ideas into practice on NileGuide (www.nileguide.com) April 28, 2009 9:19 PM Jake Faris said. September 3, 2009 12:25 PM Omar Ead said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Great points Eric. Another OODA loop fan!

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

I immediately started digging deeper and found Steves course handouts ([link] podcast from his presentation ([link] and presentation slides from SKMurphys blog ([link] And yes, The Four Steps to the Epiphany is on its way too ;-). February 13, 2009 4:05 AM Eric said. Try this download link February 16, 2009 9:21 PM Anonymoussaid.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

When I wrote a review of Four Steps on this blog in November, 2008, I did my best to be candid and warn of a few shortcomings: And Steve is the first to admit that its a "turgid" read, without a great deal of narrative flow. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Well done, Brant and Patrick.

Customer Development

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

March 14, 2009 8:34 AM Can Sar said. Thanks for this post, I was going to buy the book anyway after reading Stevens blog but this post definitely made me get it faster (just ordered). April 11, 2009 1:22 AM CeeTee said. A book I am looking forward to read after reading you blog. December 11, 2009 6:54 PM James Abley said.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Very much appreciate the suggested solutions (Five Why's, split testing etc) July 29, 2009 6:24 AM Kevin Gadd said. July 29, 2009 6:57 AM Heiner Wolf said.

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Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Ill do my best to match deserving people up with appropriate sponsors, and Ill be glad to recognize those that give on the blog and at the conference itself. Thanks Hazem March 18, 2009 6:34 PM Anonymoussaid. Ill be there!

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The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. March 25, 2009 4:44 PM Dan McGrady said. March 25, 2009 5:04 PM j pimmel said. Thank you so much!)

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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Sean Murphy has an excellent and comprehensive roundup of resources about the conference: all of the slides, videos, summaries, notes and write-ups are listed on his blog here. You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. January 21, 2009 6:39 AM Kevin Merritt said. You are doing the startup community a great service by sharing your insights via your blog. Keep them coming.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

As Seth writes this week in Seths Blog: Listening to the loud people , the most aggressive customers arent necessarily the ones you want to hear from. September 25, 2009 5:23 PM jchunter said. Thanks Eric, your blog has many golden nuggets!!! Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? April 14, 2009 3:09 PM Eric Santos said. April 14, 2009 4:03 PM Dave McClure said. thats SNL Jan 1976: [link] April 15, 2009 2:00 AM Matt Prados said.

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Continuous deployment with downloads

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

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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Founder personalities and the “first-class man” theory of management

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

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Why Continuous Deployment?

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Trending Sources

Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications

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

Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

Lessons Learned: About the author

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond"

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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

Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Building a new startup hub

The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review)

Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Amazing lean startup resources

Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? (for Harvard Business.

Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Lean Startup fbFund slides and video

Paul Graham on fundraising

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

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

Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Lessons Learned: Ideas. Code. Data. Implement. Measure. Learn

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Embrace technical debt

Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free

The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st

Thank you

Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Continuous deployment with downloads

Founder personalities and the “first-class man” theory of management

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