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On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." 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.

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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

So developers stuck in this world tend to think the other developers on their team are either, deep in their souls, plodding pedants or sloppy coders. Part of putting this into action is requiring your team to have a very deep understanding of their customers. Why do software developers think this is acceptable?

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Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

Startup Lessons Learned

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. As a fellow coder, I empathizes with you about having to throw away work that wasnt broken in anything but a business sense.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

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have you heard of any luck using outsourced coders from India … or where do you suggest ? I don’t know of an opensource or hosted version of Kickstarter. They give up They don’t talk to their customers They hire B players They can’t sell They get shitty advice. Focus on those core metrics and you should do fine.