Pitches Separate Concerns For Cross-level Coordination

Shape Up’s pitches reduce the distance between managers and implementers while actually giving both sides more control over what’s most important to them.

November 24, 2023 · 7 min

Kinds of Concreteness in Work Specification

Shape up suggests too much concreteness is harmful in work specifications. I think the issue may be kind, not degree, of concreteness.

November 17, 2023 · 5 min

Going Fast is Going Well

I want to directly address the idea that moving quickly means bad code. Heavy design process is also not the opposite of either speed or sloppy code. To go fast is to go well, and that means fast incremental design.

January 29, 2021 · 2 min