Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. Normally I focus on the techniques you need to reduce batch size, like continuous integration.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Mapl.

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OCTOBER 5, 2008

Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Indeed the first thing I thought when I read the first paragraphs that the product manager was operating in a white tower and that the developers felt disenfranchised. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Mapl.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Mapl. Expo SF (May.

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JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Real life seldom presents such comparable choices.

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JULY 9, 2010

In management jobs related to operations – that is, the people tasked with actually making and distributing physical products – this kind of thinking is now considered ludicrous, thanks to a century of progress. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

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JANUARY 19, 2009

For example, lets say you dont have an operations team, and so youre still getting paged late at night when servers crash. Is it time to make your first operations hire? Returning to our example of the beleaguered founder who still has the pager, before hiring an operations guy, try promoting someone from within to take on the job.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2009

You are quite right about openness with the present devices like iPhone, back in the day even Microsoft was pretty open with GW Basic. these devices all need human instruction to enable correct and desired operation. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. then it was GW BASIC. it was quite a journey.

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JUNE 8, 2009

First, we had to revise the way the reports were presented. 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. It required two things. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Mapl.

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APRIL 14, 2009

Compared to the million-dollar startup, they are operating at micro-scale. Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said. How does that stack up? Great post!

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

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MARCH 4, 2009

Today, Id like to spend some time on two techniques: the problem presentation and learning what channels of information reach customers. If you are grappling with understanding what problem your product solves, try building a "problem presentation." Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

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AUGUST 8, 2009

Lean methods present a third option: to invest in our process so that our design gets more feedback sooner and is more adaptable to changes in purpose. There is not "just product development" in a startup - the context of extreme uncertainty that we operate in means that every choice we make impacts the whole company.

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MARCH 23, 2009

Pretty soon you’re chasing your own tail a little bit because you’re not operating against a clear, long-term vision of what you’re trying to accomplish. I started writing and teaching about shipping imperfect products a few years ago but this is a far better, practical and more powerful presentation. Expo SF (May.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

Lean startups operate by a different standard. Everything else (including a lot of traditional "agile" or "lean" tactics) is waste. Lean startups operate by a different standard." Eric, what kind of agile or lean tactics are generally wasteful in a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Executives coming to my product development classes report operating at 98.5

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Luckily, the guys at 750 Industries turned me on to a great presentation that provides a primer on the whole advertising industry. 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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MAY 7, 2009

I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuous deployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. Moreover, approaching the problem from the direction that I had intuitively is a recipe for never reaching a point where continuous deployment is feasible.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility. When talking about their past experience, candidates with agility will know why they did what they did in a given situation. To probe for agility, you have to ask the candidate questions involving something that they know little about. Either way, youll learn something important.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2008

FYI the surveymonkey link isnt operational. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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APRIL 9, 2009

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2008

If you cant make it, you can take a look at this sneak peak of the slides, courtesy of the author: Steve Blanks "Secret History of Silicon Valley" talk at Computer History Museum 11-20-08 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

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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. For my first time, it was scalability problems and our operations team. why didnt operations get paged? How do you get started with five whys?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Have you met that prickly operations guy who seems to love servers more than people (but would never let them fail on his watch)? 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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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 The US is headed to be a second rate or third rate power if policy isn't changed to permit new and ground breaking applications to operate in large networks. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I’ve seen many times what happens when a single department get’s holed-up in its own space, like the terrifying “ operations cave.&# Im not much of a statistician, so I am indebted to @hypatiadotca who shared this excellent and brief presentation by Terri Oda. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Maybe operations has changed the OS configuration in production in a way that is incompatible with some developers change. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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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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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. Expo SF (May.

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JANUARY 4, 2009

The "letters of the alphabet" scheme I presented earlier is one (bad) example of this type. Certain data types present natural hashes as well: for numeric keys, you can take the key mod N, where N is the number of shards; dates are easily partitioned by time interval, etc. Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Companies want the coverage, but they don’t actually want to reveal anything useful about their operations. The data needed to generate this simple graph already exists: it’s the same basic data you’d need to get an accurate count of the total number of messages sent, just presented in a different form. The solution?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Twenty years from now, operating systems might also work as a good metaphor. However, attempting to slot a market stereotype matrix on to the environment in which your start-up operates isnt always going to be particularly fruitful. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 20, 2009

They started building BASIC interpreters, but evolved into the worlds largest operating systems monopoly. In a presentation you gave to one of Steves classes you mentioned how common sense all this customer development stuff seems in theory, but is relatively difficult to pull off on in practice. . Expo SF (May.

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JANUARY 12, 2009

Direct mapping of outputs to inputs : URLs to files, code and presentation intermixing. PHP encourages one of the worst programming heresies of all: intermixing code and presentation logic in a giant mish-mash. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Obama understood the two concepts that are essential for building a high-performance, highly adaptable, agile organization: 1) rapid iteration and 2) clear values-based objectives. Mission synchronization If an organization is changing on a daily basis how is it that it doesnt look "erratic" yet feels "agile." Expo SF (May.

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