Shape Up

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.

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 about it.

Appetite, how hungry you are. Now repurposed as a useful project management term.