Category: product

We’re now about six months and ten projects into developing products using Shape Up as a primary framework. One of the chapters in the book is titled Get One Piece Done. We’ve tweaked our own internal process for getting one piece done throughout the projects we’ve completed. Some ideas went well, others not so much.…

We’ve just wrapped up our second cycle of Shape Up. This cycle we moved from teams of three developers to teams of two. This change resulted in more parallel projects, naturally reducing the time that a PM could spend with engineers. Knowing this, and wanting to stay true to the goal of ‘Handing over Responsibility’…

Our development and product team are now in our first cool down period after one successful cycle of Shape Up. Not wanting to count chickens too early, we learned a lot in implementation. I wanted to share the practical reality of transitioning our team to Shape Up. I will be candid where needed in the…