Continuous Deployment Engineer Lean SCRUM 
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 16, 2009
XP and Scrum don’t have much to say - they punt. If you look at the origins of most agile systems, including Scrum and XP , they come out of experiences in big companies. Notice that the unit of progress changes as we move from waterfall to agile to the lean startup. Embedded in that assumption is why startups fail.
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
If you want to do continuous deployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. Daily builds are giving way to true continuous integration, in which every checkin to the source control system is automatically run against the full battery of automated tests. Do you make daily builds?
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 5, 2008
The VP Engineering spends all of his time trying to make sure the programmers understand and implement the spec. Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Great to read posts about introducing lean approaches into more teams. Frustration is mounting. Expo SF (May.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Side-effects that reduce agility are the most damaging symptoms of technical debt. One last thought.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 18, 2008
Its even more critical in lean startups when they need to manage growth. At IMVU , we called this person a Producer (revealing our games background); in Scrum , they are called the Product Owner. Once an agreement is reached, the Chief Engineer continually watches to make sure that the functions are following through.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 9, 2009
Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. No engineering team. The lean startup focuses on situations where we have both an unknown problem and an unknown solution.
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