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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Can you make a build in one step? Youd better.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. Instead of these dead-ends, use the problem and solution team framework and then: pivot, dont jump. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Pivot, don't jump to a new vision Why Continuous Deployment?

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

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. I am continuously coaching people to get out and see what is really going on. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. In this framework, we’ll tend to either invest in the proposed prevention or do nothing. In other words, you can always invest in process, batch size reduction, and agility as an alternative to preventing a specific problem. But there is another way.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. Continuous deployment: A key component of speed is to keep pushing out work.

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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

The site visits include stops at Square (the payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey), WeWork Soma (an amazing co-working space) and Pivotal Labs (leaders in Lean and Agile consulting), along with one more super-interesting location we’ll announce shortly. Thus we reduce the risk of deployments.