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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim."
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!)
If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuousdeployment is a must-see; slides are here. Finally, after launch, 30 professional money managers, having read articles on the company, contacted kaChing out of the blue. “It took a ton of our time, and just wasn’t contributing to our long term vision.&#
And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. As usual, a fantastic article. Another great article.
Thanks for writing this article. This means optimizing everything possible in order to attract the maximum number of users for the longest amount of time. I saw you speak yesterday at the FB garage and it reminded me of this article. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Great post Eric!
What led you to become a subscriber, versus just reading an article and leaving like everybody else? (or, I am grateful for your time and feedback. I am grateful for your time and feedback. In order to convince me, Id to see another link to an article here somewhere that I enjoyed. Read some articles, liked what I saw.
As the CTO/VP Engineering, I was the worst offender. I'm glad there's a 'name' for this part of the process Eric. I think i must have read this article a few times since you first posted it - mainly as a theoretical excercise. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire. In my role as a CTO, Ive always tried to choose the right tool for the right job. Nice article.
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