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Why Continuous Deployment?

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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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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

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And Don Reinertsen will teach you how to calculate and weigh the implications of Cost of Delay —the monetary value of a week of cycle time for experiments—information that will change the way your organization runs experiments. Thus we reduce the risk of deployments. How do you address that?

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

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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. By continuously adjusting, we eventually build up a robust series of defenses that prevent problems from happening. Five whys helps us keep our cool.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

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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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Fear is the mind-killer

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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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The Principles of Product Development Flow

Startup Lessons Learned

Reinertsen weaves together ideas from lean manufacturing, maneuver warfare, queuing theory, and even the architecture of computer operating systems and the Internet. For example, heres him discussing our collective blindness to queues: To understand the economic cost of queues, product developers must be able to answer two questions.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come.

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