article thumbnail

Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator’s first graduates head to Silicon Valley

The Next Web

Wercker : a continuous deployment solution for software developers, hosted in the cloud. If you’re going to the Demo Day in Silicon Valley, these are the startups you’ll be hearing from: Peerby : Peerby enables people to rent goods in their neighborhood and just won over 100,000 euros at the Green Challenge.

article thumbnail

The Awesomeness of a Hackathon

Feld Thoughts

I’ve become a big advocate of true Agile development (partly because of my experience with Rally Software – the leader in Agile software development environments) and – more recently – the notion of trying to get to continuous deployment which has been popularized by Eric Ries.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Beyond the garage

Startup Lessons Learned

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. A few other highlights from this year’s lineup: How Groupon is using Lean Startup ideas to scale their product development team, by VP of Product Development Suneel Gupta.

article thumbnail

Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. This finally bit us after a four month stint of development blew through its testing schedule by a factor of four: two scheduled weeks turned into two months before the product reached stability.

Lean 167
article thumbnail

Twitter Link Roundup #113 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Design for Continuous Deployment – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. A good culture avoids these dangers: Eight Dangers of Collaboration – [link]. Don’t Be A Free User – [link]. Cheap Willl Be Smart.

article thumbnail

Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 15, 2009 Why Continuous Deployment? Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months.

article thumbnail

The Phoenix Project

OnlyOnce

If your organization still does software development through a waterfall process or has separate and distinct development, QA, and IT/Operations teams, I’d say you should run, not walk, to get this book. It just uses storytelling techniques to make its points and give color and examples for more memorable learning.

Phoenix 48