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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. If you want to do continuous deployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Do you have a bug database?

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Massive proprietary databases? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Lean Startup Circle - a mailing list of dedicated and helpful entrepreneurs.

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

They maintain a huge database of passive candidates, by offering to pay them when they interview. Thanks for taking the time to pass all this wisdom on to entrepreneurs. Particularly the Continuous Deployment and Split testing posts. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Bring your questions.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

*All* of the factors involved in delivering software are affected by starting with baseline requirements that are constrained to what the system should do and the process artifacts desired (say 5 forms reading and writing a database store). The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

Unfortunately, after months or even years of development, many companies discover that customers arent willing to buy their new wares. Thats why some entrepreneurs are trying another approach to product launches: marketing a product online before spending much on research and development or inventory.

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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 You mentioned as many as 50 deployments a day to production after successful local continuous integration.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Eventually, this let us do deployments to production dozens of times every day , without significant downtime or bug regressions. When I tell this story to entrepreneurs and big-company types alike, I sometimes get this response: "well, sure, if you start out with all those great tools, processes and TDD from the beginning, thats easy!