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Crafty CTO is the brainchild of Jack Ivers, whose career combines technology leadership, entrepreneuring, and strategic advisory. Jack’s experience includes multiple stints as CTO; two successful startup exits; advising organizations from early stage startups to Fortune 100s; and over the past four years, serving as fractional CTO for organizations from pre-revenue up through $30M ARR. Jack has centered Crafty’s own mission around our clients’: helping mission-driven organizations fulfill that mission, as their fractional CTO, coach and advisor....

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.