Find out what Shape Up is about. Read the book. See how it's evolved in recent talks, podcasts, and articles.
The Shaping in Real Life course helps you debug your current process and see new ways forward. Get the "a-ha" you're missing and learn real-world techniques to start applying pieces of Shape Up with your team.
If you think that I can help, but you're not sure exactly how, we can have a call to talk through what's going on and sketch out some possibilities.
I've worked on all levels of the software stack, from UI design to programming to strategy. Over 17 years at 37signals, I designed features used by millions and eventually became Head of Strategy. In 2019 I wrote Shape Up, and three years later founded Felt Presence to help product teams stop running in circles and regain the thrill of building.
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 senior PM from our previous cohort who just got promoted to CPO. She was telling me about
PMs often prioritize work by something called "impact." But too often what a PM considered "high impact" doesn't get a green light from leadership. Why? A big piece of this problem is we don't know what 'impact' really means. What&
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. But other projects dragged on, stuck at the last yard line. What was going on?
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 work. (Plus an example of how messy a real shaping session looks.)