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If you somehow missed SLLCONF 2010 , you can get caught up with a complete video recording here.) It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. Wealthfront CTO Pascal-Louis Perez will show you how.
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 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. Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto.
skip to main | skip to sidebar Users Know Pages Home About Users Know Speaking Engagements Monday, April 19, 2010 6 Questions To Ask Before Launching a New Feature There are a lot of things to pay attention to when you’re launching a new feature. ▼ April (5) 7 Ways Design Can Speed Up Your Product Developmen.
Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuousdeployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile. My personal background was as an engineer and my companies had been Web-based startups, so that is what I wrote about. It's a big tent.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully.
Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. By the time we started doing continuous integration, we had tens of thousands of lines of code, all not under test coverage. It seems your cluster architecture is one of the key architectural constraints making continuousdeployment possible.
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. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.
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.
When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.
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. Sounds very similar to agile development which is the way. Expo SF (May.
I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. May 30, 2010 1:34 AM Poker Workout said.
Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. Ajay January 24, 2010 6:15 AM Matthew Ogston said. February 9, 2010 3:16 PM Anonymoussaid. April 12, 2010 7:45 AM @hankzy said. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 27, 2010 Good enough never is (or is it?) Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action.
But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") April 6, 2010 8:23 AM Colie Brice said. No more, no less.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,
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.
The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility. When talking about their past experience, candidates with agility will know why they did what they did in a given situation. To probe for agility, you have to ask the candidate questions involving something that they know little about. Expo SF (May.
February 17, 2010 1:09 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) . Expo SF (May.
If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? And what about if deployment takes forever? March 23, 2010 2:05 PM Anonymoussaid. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Not all CEO's have business sense.
In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. 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. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot (The following guest post is a new experiment for this blog. If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuousdeployment is a must-see; slides are here. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
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. Ken Yagen (@kenyagen) KenAtYagenDotCom January 3, 2010 1:38 PM Paramendra Bhagat said. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
So I don't think the Apple experience should be used to discount lean, agile, or customer development-type approaches. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?
This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. January 6, 2010 12:49 AM Anonymoussaid. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May.
Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. January 10, 2010 12:57 PM talltodd said. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Thank you. Thanks Eric. Expo SF (May.
Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. I went through some of this in bringing agile methodologies to my current firm - except that I am the product manager in question at this case. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 22, 2010 Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Diversity is the canary in the coal mine for meritocracy. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Hint: it doesnt. Expo SF (May.
Sam March 3, 2010 7:32 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) . Expo SF (May.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, June 17, 2010 No departments Big companies have departments. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.
For those whove heard it, it contains a length discourse on the subject of agile software development and extreme programming, including its weaknesses when applied to startups. As Im pontificating about agile, I see the name Kent Beck in my peripheral vision. Now, this webcast was packed, hundreds of people were logged in.
April 5, 2009 8:44 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.
January 14, 2010 12:43 AM wesley chun said. speaking of Python, over a decade ago, the creator of Python wrote an essay called Computer Programming for Everybody (CP4E) which turned into a DARPA grant describing how programming should be taught like reading, writing, and arithmetic: [link] January 14, 2010 1:25 AM drhowarddrfine said.
In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?
March 17, 2009 7:48 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Expo SF (May.
Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Great post! You do a great job articulating.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.
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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, May 31, 2010 Thank you The past month has been an incredible roller coaster: #sllconf was a trending topic (briefly topping Justin Bieber before the wifi in the hotel gave out), the Web 2.0 Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May.
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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
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. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.
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