Arturo Herrero

Shape Up

The Shape Up method:

• Shaped versus unshaped work.
• Designing at the right level of abstraction.
• Setting appetites instead of estimates.
• Concepting with breadboards and fat marker sketches.
• Making deliberate commitments—bets— instead of feeding the machine.
• Choosing the right cycle length (six weeks).
• A cool-down period between cycles.
• Breaking projects apart into scopes.
• Downhill versus uphill work and communicating about unknowns.
• Scope hammering to separate must-haves from nice-to-haves.

Six week cycles, two tracks

Phases of the work

Steps to perform

Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters, Ryan Singer.

August 06, 2019 | @ArturoHerrero