Ryan Singer (Shaping in Real Life, Shape Up News)
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Product Strategy and Tooling, from the author of Shape Up
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Not everyone needs to be talking to customers
Product gurus will tell you that the way to heaven is for everyone in the company to take part in discovery. Engineers should be talking to customers! Designers should do...
Not everyone needs to be talking to customers
On relying on each others' expertise instead of trying to pull everyone into the same work.
We did all this discovery... now how do we decide?
The ideas, the interviews, the stories, the pain points — they all start to pile up. That's where the problem comes in...
We did all this discovery... now how do we decide?
On how to weigh the impact when we've gathered too many inputs to choose from.
Bootstrap the Conversation Presentation
Here's the PDF file of the presentation to download.PDF of the "Bootstrap the Conversation" Presentationbootstrap presentation model.pdf454 KBdownload-circle
Bootstrap the Conversation Presentation
Here's the PDF file of the presentation to download.PDF of the "Bootstrap the Conversation" Presentationbootstrap presentation model.pdf454 KBdownload-circle
Shaping in Real Life, Cohort 6
We're excited to announce the sixth (wow!) cohort of Shaping in Real Life, coming in October.I like to keep in touch with our alumni. Last week I talked to a...
Shaping in Real Life, Cohort 6
We're excited to announce the sixth (wow!) cohort of Shaping in Real Life, coming in October.I like to keep in touch with our alumni. Last week I talked to a...
What's the unit of impact?
Different moments in the company call for green-lighting different project. What counts as "impactful" depends on what we're trying to do.
What's the unit of impact?
Different moments in the company call for green-lighting different projects. What counts as "impactful" depends on what we're trying to do.
The cost of not shaping
A founder came to me with questions about his team's results adopting Shape Up. Some projects were knockouts. They got exactly what they wanted done, when they wanted it done....
The cost of not shaping
A founder came to me with questions about his team's results adopting Shape Up. Some projects were knockouts. They got exactly what they wanted done, when they wanted it done....
Shaping isn't writing
Shaping isn't writing. It's not filling out a template or creating a document. It's getting to that "a-ha" moment together where the parts crystalize and we have something that will...
Shaping isn't writing
Shaping isn't writing. It's not filling out a template or creating a document. It's getting to that "a-ha" moment together where the parts crystalize and we have something that will...
Three "what about...?" questions when considering Shape Up
Questions about roadmaps, betting at the last minute, iterations, and how shipping what we intended is like driving a car.
Three "what about...?" questions when considering Shape Up
Questions about roadmaps, betting at the last minute, iterations, and how shipping what we intended is like driving a car.
Step change
The recent wave of layoffs reveals something tricky about the notion of "empowered" product teams. There's a missing ingredient that seems to separate the teams who get cut from the...
Step change
The recent wave of layoffs reveals something tricky about the notion of "empowered" product teams. There's a missing ingredient that seems to separate the teams who get cut from the...
Room Mapping Template
Here is the Excalidraw template for mapping time spent in different rooms. Time mapping templateTime mapping template.excalidraw446 KBdownload-circle
Room Mapping Template
Here is the Excalidraw template for mapping time spent in different rooms. Time mapping templateTime mapping template.excalidraw446 KBdownload-circle