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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

We asked him a few questions to learn about continuous delivery, why it’s useful, and what engineers and management need to do to implement it. LSC: One of the biggest fears people have about a continuous deployment environment is that it introduces more risk to engineering. Thus we reduce the risk of deployments.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

More important, the iteration framework gave us something like a meta-process: we could try new ideas about how to manage development process and measure them against historical data to see what could further optimize the process. Continuous deployment: A key component of speed is to keep pushing out work.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

So if you’ve got advice to share on implementing a continuous deployment framework, for example, we’re all eyes. So, no, you absolutely do not have to be a developer to give a talk. That said, we do have room this year for a handful of tech talks. 5) Do I have to follow the directions on the application form ?

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Product Discovery in Established Companies

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We’ve got more techniques than ever to do this, including many techniques for creating very low-cost and low-risk MVP Tests, and for proving things work with minimal investment and limited exposure, we love Live-Data Prototypes and A/B Testing Frameworks. See Product Discovery with Live-Data Prototypes. See Assessing Customer Impact.

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

www.subelsky.com

Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. There are several good unit testing frameworks for Rails, each with their own devotees. Theres a drop-in Rails plugin but this service could be used with any language.

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A Different Kind of Entrepreneurship Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

When our event started four years ago, we focused on bringing entrepreneurs together to talk about getting started with the Lean Startup methodology, which creates a broad framework for reducing the uncertainty inherent in a startup.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

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 continuous deployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Can you make a build in one step?