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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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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

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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. Continuous Deployment is Continuous Flow applied to software.

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Founder personalities and the “first-class man” theory of management

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And that narrow definition of entrepreneurship doesn’t count all of the managers inside established companies who are effectively engaged in the same process of building an internal startup (see What is a startup? for my more expansive definition). for my more expansive definition). What motivates all these entrepreneurs?

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Continuous deployment and continuous learning At long last, some of the actual implementers of the advanced systems we built at IMVU for rapid deployment and rapid response are starting to write about it. At IMVU it’s a core part of our culture to ship.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

We talk about taking advantages of the incredible agility offered by modern web architecture for extremely rapid deployment, etc. I havent had to work this model under those conditions, so I cant say anything definitive. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Examples of this are well-known, and (in my definition) include any product that causes new customers to sign up as a necessary side-effect of existing customers normal usage: Facebook, Myspace, AIM/ICQ, Hotmail, Paypal. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

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We lack a consistent and clear definition of the job. With multiple people trying to work to the same standard, we had to be a lot crisper in our definitions. Was it an important or irrelevant fact that most of our web code was procedural and not object-oriented? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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