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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

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. This case presents a further complication: desktop software.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Often, in very young organizations, those people are simply the founders. Now, “lean” is often used to refer to a company’s financial situation, so it might make you think of a bootstrapped or under-funded organization. Maybe you’ve got technical advice for getting the most out of A/B testing on software projects.

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

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It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Hey Someone else who is extending the agile/lean approach beyond just developing software. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. and lean manufacturing to guide the creation of technology businesses that create disruptive innovation.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

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In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next. The breakthrough idea of agile is that software should be built iteratively, with the pieces that customers value most created first. Hes often felt that there was something missing.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

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It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

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I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently. This shift allowed us to crank out working software quickly as a service. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Cash is tight. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. It was a disaster.

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Four myths about the Lean Startup

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internet/consumer software companies. And they can benefit from the speed and discipline of starting with a minimum viable product and then learning and iterating continuously. Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups. internet/consumer software companies. Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups.

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