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In my first post, we looked at Shape Up fundamentals like six-week cycles, appetite, work shaping, and the betting table. We left off at the handoff of shaped, de-risked work to the development teams. This post will focus on Shape Up’s approach to building. (And shipping!)

Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters, written by Basecamp’s Ryan Singer, hit my radar last summer, and I’ve been trying to write about it ever since.

I was in England on business—some sort of software event in London, the details long since faded and obscured. But this day, this day … the memories surge back, filling out in technicolor as I write and research, a kind of archaeological dig through both memories and the vast web of resources now at my fingertips about the people, places, and things we encountered this day. It was early June 1987, and I was fortunate in that my wife was able to make the trip with me. Beth was eight months pregnant with our first child, Jennifer, who expressed pre-natal delight at the novelty of air travel with kicks and backflips. We had only a handful of extra days for sightseeing; just time enough, really, for a single destination. ...