Basecamp created hill charts as a novel way to view project progress and outstanding risk. The goal is to give managers a feel for progress without having to ask, but it also addresses key communication issues caused by uncertainty in creative work.
I think small teams are an underemphasized key element of the Shape Up approach to project management.
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.
Shape up suggests too much concreteness is harmful in work specifications. I think the issue may be kind, not degree, of concreteness.
Appetite, how hungry you are. Now repurposed as a useful project management term for how time the team wants to invest.