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- In case you are interested in Shape Up and want read more about it, Ryan Singer - the inventor of the methodology - has written a really great book about how they have been, and currently are, building and shipping products and features at 37signals.
The book is called "Shape Up" (doh) and the electronic version is totally free:
I would also really recommend the rest of the books, lots of great thoughts on development and management from actual experience. Also free:
- I can't speak more highly of Ryan Singer's work on Shape Up. It has transformed how we approach work by inverting the question from "how long something is going to take" to "how long do we want to spend on this".
- A list of books I posted in another thread:
* Steve Blank’s The Startup Manual or Four Step to Epiphany.
* Dan Olsen, The Lean Product Playbook
* Ryan Singer, Shape Up
* Jake Knapp, Sprint
* Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping
* Stephen Wunker, Costovation
* Jackie Bavaro, Cracking the PM Career
Also checkout /r/productmanagement subreddit.
- Start with Steve Blank’s The Startup Manual or Four Step to Epiphany. Other books
Dan Olsen, The Lean Product Playbook
Mart Cagan, Inspired
Ryan Singer, Shape Up
Jake Knapp, Sprint
Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping
Stephen Wunker, Costovation
- A list of books I posted in another thread:
* Start with Steve Blank’s The Startup Manual or Four Step to Epiphany. Other books:
* Dan Olsen, The Lean Product Playbook
* Mart Cagan, Inspired
* Ryan Singer, Shape Up
* Jake Knapp, Sprint
* Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping
* Stephen Wunker, Costovation
Also checkout /r/productmanagement subreddit.
- After reading Shape Up by Ryan Singer we decided to try it out. It's been incredible improvement. We are now able to focus deeply on hard problems, take guilt-free time to rest and sharpen our skills, and regularly think long term about the direction of our work. I just wrote about about it in-depth on my blog:
