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For readers of this blog, Steve needs no introduction. No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR. Yes, you really can use continuousdeployment – even in an SEC regulated environment. Votizen’s David Binetti will show you a real pivot story, including the actual metrics that helped him realize it was time to change.
Or you could work with the writer to create a blog, see if it can attract a readership, and then test whether those readers will pre-order a book—which you can do before you’ve put ten seconds of effort into creating a print volume. Not to mention $200,000 in staff time and hard costs. Note that this isn’t a free process.
But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process. As Shutterstock has grown, there are a few key elements to our continued development speed: Small, autonomous teams: The more a team can do on their own, the faster they can go.
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.
Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. We love Cucumber for higher level testing.
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. Continuous learning -> Continuous feedback!
If you have not asked the above questions about the feature you’re about to release, then you should stop reading this blog post and answer them right now. ► February (1) 6 Ways You May Be Failing at Customer Development ► 2009 (9) ► December (1) Which Metrics Equal Happy Users? them ahead of time.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. In this post, Id like to talk about the perils of vanity metrics. My personal favorite vanity metrics is "hits."
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.
Because five whys kept turning up a few key metrics that were hard to set static thresholds for, we even had a dynamic prediction algorithm that would make forecasts based on past data, and fire alerts if the metric ever went out of its normal bounds. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
To illustrate this point, I want to excerpt a large part of a recent blog post by Owen Rogers, who organized my recent trip to Vancouver. 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.
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.
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.
Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Max Levchin of Slide and Paypal has noted that 10% of Slides headcount is devoted to metrics only.
No vanity metrics should be looked at. No vanity metrics should be looked at. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 1, 2009 The Steve Jobs method Image via CrunchBase Its been a long time since I did a post that was primarily a link to another blog with commentary, but I came across something today that I really want to share. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
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. But this blog put into better perspective. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. One last thought.
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. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.
Leading up to a pivot, each cycle, despite our best efforts, the metrics werent good enough. thanks for the post, i just discovered this blog recently from one of Steven Blank's post. I am very happy while reading your blog. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. It was painful. I like this term.
But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. If you want to do continuousdeployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. For more on continuousdeployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Can you make a build in one step?
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. I hope you take something of value from this blog. Eric, love the blog. Thanks for your professional blog. So thats me, your author.
This is one of the blog we posted about how some company is doing SEO to promote the website. To help find the right keywords, Ive written an article on my blog Web Startup Help that details How to Do Keyword Research for startups. This post has been removed by a blog administrator. link] November 8, 2008 7:13 PM Jason said.
In order to give people the data they need to apply the strategy, we were very open with our company metrics, making all reports generally available and easy to run. When you think a certain feature will give a 50% boost to a given metric, and it only eeks out a 5% boost, you cant spin that as failure. March 5, 2009 8:56 AM Eric said.
In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. As I present in my blog, defining the MVP requires answering the following question: "Will our customers be willing to buy the product with these features - available at this date - at this price?"
At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. Even if it shows improvement in some micro metric, does that invalidate the overall design? That was evident in the metrics and in the in-person usability tests. No one feature is to blame.
I would love to see some blog posts on any experiences you have had with set-based design. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
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. Regular readers of this blog will know the specific methodology I recommend, called Five Whys. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
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I think this blog clearly shows that having a PM that can influence development and management teams can have a tremendous positive impact on the projects success and ultimately the company as well. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. Any serious PM has to have a healhty and practical understanding of these trio.
Great blog! April 30, 2010 12:14 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?) Good stuff.
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Ive written about it on our development blog at [link] October 6, 2008 3:34 PM Chris Hondl said. If the team is continually falling behind, it would seem that these teams were no fully aware of their expectations to begin with. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
Thanks for this post, I was going to buy the book anyway after reading Stevens blog but this post definitely made me get it faster (just ordered). A book I am looking forward to read after reading you blog. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n. April 11, 2009 1:22 AM CeeTee said.
If you find it worthwhile, we'd appreciate a post on the blog to help us spread the word. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Case Study: Continuousdeployment makes releases n.
Balancing competing objectives is a recurring theme on this blog - its the central challenge of all management decisions. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.
Know what the success metrics are for the launch. Great blog BTW, adding this to my favourites. OH>>> they can, since i have an ezine and blog, too. Thanks and if there are further advice you can offer start-ups, ill follow this blog keenly to uncover them. March 13, 2009 9:32 PM Postcard Printing said.
July 27, 2009 7:58 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?)
When I read Erics blog I immediately felt at home: the principles were the same even though some of the practices were different. 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.
Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. Looking forward to more of your posts, this blog is a favorite of ours right now! Thank you for your simple, insightful explanation of why that is the wrong metric to use. Great post!
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. Unfortunately, its easy to lose track of positioning effects when optimizing for a single metric.
Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. And how could they possibly review a blog? Is that a lot? What is the right revenue model?
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