Ryan Singer (Shaping in Real Life, Shape Up News)
Description
Product Strategy and Tooling, from the author of Shape Up
Feed Activity
Similar Feeds
The Product Compass
www.productcompass.pm
Actionable insights and resources for Product Managers. Every week.
The Product Manager's Essential Library
tomaszstaniak.com
Latest books, articles, and resources for product leaders
Latest Posts
What's the right level of detail when shaping?
I get this question all the time.Look at whatever doc you're making in the shaping phase (eg a "pitch" per the book or something else) and ask yourself: What am...
End-To-End with Shape Up: A Real-World Case Study
Here's a new case study, showing a project end-to-end. It's about 30 minutes, and you'll see every step from choosing the initial idea through framing, shaping, and building.Pay special attention...
Common Pitfalls When Adopting Shape Up (and How to Avoid Them)
I see some common pitfalls when people try to do Shape Up "by the book." There are things in the book that are Basecamp-specific or often misunderstood, and teams who...
When engineers say "that'll take months!"
Igor writes: "Our product is 15 years old, with a lot of legacy code and outdated technologies. Our engineers say that the minimum time they need to ship anything of...
Not everyone needs to be talking to customers
On relying on each others' expertise instead of trying to pull everyone into the same work.
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...
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.
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...
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 projects. 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 project. 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.