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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

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

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4) I’m not a coder; should I bother to apply? So if you’ve got advice to share on implementing a continuous deployment framework, for example, we’re all eyes. Oh, and your salespeople have to make sure bookstores will stock it, and your marketing and PR people will have to make sure readers know it exists. Glad you asked.

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On deployment

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And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. After an hour with a team talking dirty about deployment, youll know. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

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As a fellow coder, I empathizes with you about having to throw away work that wasnt broken in anything but a business sense. 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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Lean Startup webcast post-game

Startup Lessons Learned

Related articles by Zemanta Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps (4cloudcomputing.blogspot.com) The Lean Startup workshop coming soon (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com) The Lean Startup Talk From Web 2.0 How many people - coders - do you think a small startup with a 6mm pages/month site should have?

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, I am convinced that if you could find some of IMVU’s earliest adopters, they would say something like this: “sure, those guys at IMVU HQ were helpful in writing code and stuff, but in the end they were just the hired help. And until that happens, you will continually have to keep borrowing money time and time again.

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