just deploy it
DESCRIPTION
Ignite presentation at The Lean Startup Conference (LeanStartup.co) in December 2012 in San Francisco by Arin Sime of AgilityFeat.com. In this 5 minute presentation, Arin took people through his complaints of companies (even startups) not deploying often enough, and offered 5 tips for how to prevent from doing this yourself.TRANSCRIPT
Just Deploy It!
@ArinSime
Have you deployed anything today?
DEPLOY
We’ve come along ways…
… but we are still taking too long to deploy
JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN
JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
What is holding you
back from launching
right now ?
#1 – Avoid Release Plans
Q1 Release
Q2 Release
Q3 Release Q4
Release
#1 – Avoid Release Plans
Every 2
weeks
Instead…
Feature
Feature
Feature
Feature
Feature
Feature
Feature
Hig
hest
Pri
ori
ty
Feature
Feature
Ready to build Ready to
deploy
#2 – Avoid Big Bang Deployments
“Big release”
Feature A
Feature B
Bug fixDesign Change
Pricing ChangeFeature C
Which was the cause?
meh.
Instead…
#3 – Logins are low priorityToo-Typical Developer:
“Great! First I’m going to setup our user types, an administration site, and this cool security framework…”
#3 – Logins are low priority
PWN3D!!!
Instead…1.Most important
features/assumptions
2.Minimal security necessary
3.Lots of other more important things…
4.… then pretty admin sites
#4 – Delay Load Testing
#4 – Delay Load Testing
epic fail.
Wait for benefits to outweigh the costs
#5 – Kill the Betas
Launch
Beta!
Instead…
Launch
Beta!
Do Less…Release More…
Just Deploy It!
@ArinSime