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Intro to Shape Up

Intro to Shape Up

In 2019, Ryan Singer open-sourced how product development happens at Basecamp in a book called “Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters.”

This presentation is an intro to how Specify leverages Shape Up to define focused projects, address unknowns, and increase collaboration and engagement within the team.

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Florent Merian
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January 16, 2023
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  1. @specifyapp
    Intro to
    Shape Up

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  2. How we leverage Shape Up
    In 2019, Ryan Singer open-sourced how product development happens at
    Basecamp in a book called “Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship
    Work that Matters.”
    @specifyapp @fmerian
    INTRO
    Intro to Shape Up
    This presentation is a short overview of the main ideas in this book.
    And how we apply them at Specify.

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  3. Stop running in circles
    and start shipping work
    that matters.
    Intro to Shape Up
    INTRO
    @specifyapp @fmerian

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  4. Making teams responsible
    Targeting risk
    Overview
    Intro to Shape Up
    PRINCIPLES
    4-week cycles
    Shaping the work
    @specifyapp @fmerian

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  5. 4-week cycles
    PRINCIPLES
    W01
    Intro to Shape Up
    W04
    Build Cooldown
    W03
    First, we work in four-week cycles.
    @specifyapp @fmerian
    Shape Up is originally a six-week cycle. We adapted it to our needs.
    The #1 objective is to ship.

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  6. Shaping the work
    PRINCIPLES
    Intro to Shape Up
    Second, we shape the work before giving it to a team.
    @specifyapp @fmerian
    A small group works in parallel to the cycle teams.
    They define the key elements of a solution before we consider a project
    ready to work on.

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  7. Making teams responsible
    PRINCIPLES
    Intro to Shape Up
    Third, we give full responsibility to a small team of designers and
    developers.
    @specifyapp @fmerian
    They define their own tasks, make adjustments to the scope, and work
    together to build vertical slices of the product one at a time.
    It's completely different from other methodologies, where managers chop
    up the work and developers act like ticket-takers.

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  8. Targeting risk
    PRINCIPLES
    Intro to Shape Up
    At every step of the process we target a specific risk: the risk of not
    shipping on time.
    @specifyapp @fmerian
    In short, the #1 objective is to ship.
    🙂
    Getting it
    done
    Start
    Figuring
    out what
    to do Finish

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  9. What we built
    in 4-week cycles
    EXAMPLES
    GitHub Integration
    Configuration Templates
    Command-Line Interface
    Intro to Shape Up
    @specifyapp @fmerian

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  10. Making teams responsible
    Targeting risk
    Recap
    Intro to Shape Up
    PRINCIPLES
    4-week cycles
    Shaping the work
    @specifyapp @fmerian

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  11. @specifyapp
    Ready?
    Let's ship.
    🦾

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