An Interview with Ivy: Shape Up From a Product Designer’s PerspectiveĪnd finally, to learn about what it is that Basecamp do, check out the Youtube video below:.

Shape Up vs Scrum: 6 Months to 6 Weeks – How We Cut Our Dev Cycle 75%.

Or, to read about Process Street‘s experience of Shape Up check out both of these two posts: In 2019, Ryan Singer, Head of Strategy and Product at Basecamp, got the Shape Up approach down on paper in the ebook I mentioned in the introduction. You’ll learn language and techniques to define focused projects, address unknowns, and increase collaboration and engagement within your team.” – Ryan Singer, Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters

If you’ve thought to yourself: Why can’t we ship like we used to? Or, I never have enough time to think about strategy. “Shape Up is for product development teams who struggle to ship. Shape Up processes to help you get started.I’ll also introduce each of the phases and their corresponding checklist. In this post, I’ll briefly touch on the fundamental concepts of Shape Up’s approach. The checklists take you through the Shape Up process and its 3 key phases: Shaping, betting, and building.

What started off as Basecamp‘s internal approach to developing and shipping software at lightning speed, has become a clearly written (and illustrated), freely contributed, and easily accessible e-book: “ Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters“.Īlthough I sincerely recommend you read the book, this post is here to save you from studying the 143 pages of text by providing you with three nifty checklist templates. This alternative development method is a breath of fresh air from all things Scrum, Agile, Kanban, Scrumban, Fake Agile, Bad Agile… you get my drift. We’ve cut our development cycle by 70% since making the move to Shape Up.

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