Basecamp Books¶

Shape Up¶

Shaped versus unshaped work
Setting appetites instead of estimates
Designing at the right level of abstraction
Concepting with breadboards and fat marker sketches
Making bets with a capped downside (the circuit breaker) and honouring them with uninterrupted time
Choosing the right cycle length (six weeks)
A cool-down period between cycles
Breaking projects apart into scopes
Downhill versus uphill work and communicating about unknowns
Scope hammering to separate must-haves from nice-to-haves