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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

Customers kept demanding that we add this or that IM feature, and we were routinely refusing. We were afraid that this was just the tip of the iceberg, and that once we “gave in&# to these five demands there would be five more, ad infinitum. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Gatekeepers are overloaded. Expo SF (May.

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Stop lying on stage

Startup Lessons Learned

Many journalists and conference organizers attempt to fill this demand by giving successful entrepreneurs the opportunity to tell their stories: in magazines, on blogs, and on stage. It sells newspapers and magazines. But if you’re attending a conference or reading a magazine, you aren’t bound by those rules.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. If we’re practicing continuous deployment, 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.