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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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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. Can you make a build in one step?

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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You don't need as many tools as you think

Startup Lessons Learned

Heres something I can relate to: We used assembla for subversion, scrums, milestones, wikis, and for general organizational purposes. Scrum reports would come in once a month, nobody was actually responsible for anything. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.