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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 15, 2009 Why ContinuousDeployment? Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuousdeployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuousdeployment. ContinuousDeployment is Continuous Flow applied to software.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 28, 2009 Continuousdeployment for mission-critical applications Having evangelized the concept of continuousdeployment for the past few years, Ive come into contact with almost every conceivable question, objection, or concern that people have about it.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customerdevelopment? But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Continuousdeployment 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. Continuous learning -> Continuous feedback!
As we head into 2013, it's a good time to reflect on how far the Lean Startup movement has come: When I first started blogging in August of 2008, I had no idea what to expect. We stand on the shoulders of giants: customerdevelopment, the theory of disruptive innovation, the technology life-cycle adoption theory, and agile development.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008CustomerDevelopment Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customerdevelopment methodology.
I believe it is the best introduction to CustomerDevelopment you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of CustomerDevelopment and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. You can imagine how well that worked. Its trying to do way too many things at once. I think theyve succeeded.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. November 13, 2008 8:59 PM eisrael said. November 14, 2008 3:19 AM Hitchens said. November 14, 2008 4:41 PM Eric said. Glad to hear the discipline continues, albeit in modified form.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 16, 2009 Continuousdeployment with downloads One of my goals in writing posts about topics like continuousdeployment is the hope that people will take those ideas and apply them to new situations - and then share what they learn with the rest of us. Thanks for the comments.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customerdevelopment Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. October 20, 2008 9:34 PM Nivi said. October 20, 2008 10:36 PM Nathan said.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. September 15, 2008 9:12 PM Hitchens said.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. If you cant find any , maybe that means you havent figured out who your customer is yet.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? October 1, 2008 2:13 AM archenland said. Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. Great piece! Great post!
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. The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. Less is more.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. October 6, 2008 12:16 AM Vincent van Wylick said. October 6, 2008 12:17 AM r& said. Nice write-up. Interesting read.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup?
If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuousdeployment is a must-see; slides are here. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 29, 2008 The ABCDEFs of conducting a technical interview I am incredibly proud of the people I have hired over the course of my career. December 2, 2008 8:53 AM Lisa said. December 2, 2008 10:47 AM William Pietri said. December 2, 2008 10:56 AM Ryan said. Fantastic post.
Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuousdeployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. When operating with continuousdeployment, its almost impossible to have integration conflicts. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuousdeployment , 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 continuousdeployment is feasible.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (This article is a draft - your comments are especially welcome as I think through these issues. But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. Please leave feedback!)
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Choose one.
Each has its own iterative process: customerdevelopment and agile development respectively. In a customer problem pivot, we try to solve a different problem for the same customer segment. When doing intense customerdevelopment, the problem team can attain a high level of empathy with potential customers.
To do that, we add specific speed regulators, like integrating source control with our continuous integration server or the more elaborate dance required for continuousdeployment. Are the engineers in the customerdevelopment team allowed to push quick and dirty "prototypes" to production?
Not everything has to follow lean startup and customerdevelopment principles, and I write that as a devoted practitioner of both. It would be far more useful to discover how Apple really does develop their innovative products it rather than assume that they follow the principles that you and I espouse.
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuousdeployment for mission-critical applica.
If we’re practicing continuousdeployment, we can be confident that we’ll be able to rush an emergency fix into production without risking introducing further problems. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuousdeployment for mission-critical applica.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? When you have an infinitesimal number of customers, it can be embarrassing. But as long as your ego can take it, there are huge advantages to having a small number of customers. September 19, 2008 2:08 PM gmlk said. Still new.
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuousdeployment for mission-critical applica.
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuousdeployment for mission-critical applica.
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ▼ June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuousdeployment for mission-critical applica.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customerdevelopment. October 6, 2008 9:41 PM Eric said.
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuousdeployment for mission-critical applica. Expo (and a call for he.
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuousdeployment for mission-critical applica.
Those who are interested in work-in-process might want to take a look at Work in small batches and Continuousdeployment - Eric) Some specific TPS practices appear in Lean Startups. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup? A/B testing is set-based design.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 8, 2008Continuous integration step-by-step Lets start with the basics: Martin Fowlers original article lays out the mechanics of how to set up a CI server and the essential rules to follow while doing it. December 10, 2008 6:37 AM Anonymoussaid.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 8comments: William Pietri said. December 9, 2008 3:10 AM Amy said.
(For more on how this plays into the process of scaling up, see the Customer Creation stage of the customerdevelopment model.) But in the meantime, by iterating on their product with customers, they have a chance to get there on their own. Labels: agile , customerdevelopment 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? Only much later did I realize that this was an application of customerdevelopment to online marketing. SEM is a simple idea.
When I first encountered customerdevelopment , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. When I first encountered customerdevelopment , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to CustomerDevelopment ► June (3) What is a startup?
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments. Customerdevelopment. How dare you! =) November 4, 2008 10:58 PM IMVU said.
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