Topic
teams
- Framing and Shape Up
With Shape Up, the process of "shaping" new product takes investment to really understand and communicate an idea. But in the process, this precedes the "pitch", the step where the team reviews a shaped concept and bu…
- The Arc of Collaboration
In this essay, Kevin Kwok attempts to differentiate between productivity and collaboration, with a focus on how Slack has failed as yet to become the nervous system that combines these things. This take is one of the…
- Managerial Leverage
Andy Grove is widely respected as an authority figure on business management. Best known for his work at Intel during the 1980s, his book High Output Management is regularly cited as one of the best in the genre of bu…
- Shape Up
Ryan Singer and the Basecamp team just released their new ebook on product development, called Shape Up, made available for free online. Me and some of our team here have already dug into it and are finding some inter…
- Structuring Work and Teams at Basecamp
Like many working in product, I've been a follower-slash-admirer of how Basecamp works for years. This model of working in 6-week "cycles" sounds like an attractive option for organizing a team, without falling into t…
- Running in Circles
Basecamp's Ryan Singer articulates well the struggles with adopting and truly getting value out of an agile workflow. The core problem most teams face isn't that they're bad at estimating time to completion, it's that…