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## [Show&Tell of daily practicing ShapeUp in your team](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/show-tell-of-daily-practicing-shapeup-in-your-team/274)

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**Author:** [@michiels](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/u/michiels)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [April 10, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/show-tell-of-daily-practicing-shapeup-in-your-team/274 "2020-04-10T18:45:36Z")

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At Firmhouse we use Basecamp for doing product development and project management across our company. In that sense, we’re pretty much modeled around how ShapeUp seems to be executed by Ryan Singer and his colleagues. T…

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## [Cool-downs: Optional, Required … On Demand?](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/cool-downs-optional-required-on-demand/272)

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**Author:** [@nt-from-chicago](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/u/nt-from-chicago)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [March 30, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/cool-downs-optional-required-on-demand/272 "2020-03-30T13:55:26Z")

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Yesterday’s really good Meetup session sort of rattled my noggin a bit with regard to cool-down cycles. For my first three cycles, I didn’t use cool-downs. The work was shaped so there was time to do the betting table a…

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## [Shaping bets related to development of APIs or developer tools - good practices?](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/shaping-bets-related-to-development-of-apis-or-developer-tools-good-practices/250)

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**Author:** [@DavidHaskiya](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/u/DavidHaskiya)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [March 29, 2020, 11:46am UTC](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/shaping-bets-related-to-development-of-apis-or-developer-tools-good-practices/250 "2020-03-29T11:46:50Z")

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Hi, At my organisation, Wikimedia Sverige, we’re planning to adopt Shape Up for our development. We know that one of the very first things we’re likely to work with is to improve a Python library for a API. The API curr…

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## [Bet placing with external dependencies](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/bet-placing-with-external-dependencies/205)

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**Author:** [@chriscbs](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/u/chriscbs)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [March 24, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/bet-placing-with-external-dependencies/205 "2020-03-24T19:06:34Z")

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Hey folks, At Autobooks we’ve done a number of projects using ShapeUp over the past year. The projects that have tripped the circuit breaker have mostly involved external dependencies. A few months ago Ryan said to me…

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## [Bringing together Wardley Maps with ShapeUp](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/bringing-together-wardley-maps-with-shapeup/181)

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**Author:** [@venkinesis](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/u/venkinesis)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2020, 3:35am UTC](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/bringing-together-wardley-maps-with-shapeup/181 "2020-03-07T03:35:03Z")

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Hello Everyone, My name is Venky. I used to work as a Product Manager in an agritech startup. I am currently working with few startup clients on Product Management problems. I’ve been very much fascinated with 1) Wardle…

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## [Explaining the Hillcharts](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/explaining-the-hillcharts/145)

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**Author:** [@crashmajstr](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/u/crashmajstr)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [March 5, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/explaining-the-hillcharts/145 "2020-03-05T00:57:54Z")

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Hi at Avocode we are currently running the first development cycle, for now, we decided to skip tracking progress via the Hillcharts. Some reasons why: We didn’t fully understand it We don’t use Basecamp so we didn’t …

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## [SCSS-ZERO is a framework based on ShapeUP, Milligram and TailwindCSS](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/scss-zero-is-a-framework-based-on-shapeup-milligram-and-tailwindcss/226)

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**Author:** [@lazaronixon](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/u/lazaronixon)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2020, 12:30am UTC](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/scss-zero-is-a-framework-based-on-shapeup-milligram-and-tailwindcss/226 "2020-03-04T00:30:56Z")

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Thinking about breadboard and affordances I created this CSS Framework to help developers to brings your ideas to life before put colors, fonts, images, layout etc…

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## [Marketing, Onboarding - responsibilities during Shape up](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/marketing-onboarding-responsibilities-during-shape-up/202)

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**Author:** [@crashmajstr](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/u/crashmajstr)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2020, 8:44pm UTC](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/marketing-onboarding-responsibilities-during-shape-up/202 "2020-03-02T20:44:14Z")

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Hello everyone, Currently, at Avocode we are ready to start the second dev cycle on Monday. I personally held retrospective meetings during the cool-down with all teams and I have some feedback which in some cases I don…

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## [Any advice implementing Shape Up in a very small org?](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/any-advice-implementing-shape-up-in-a-very-small-org/187)

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**Author:** [@ed.b](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/u/ed.b)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 17, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/any-advice-implementing-shape-up-in-a-very-small-org/187 "2020-02-17T22:55:33Z")

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I work for a very small organisation - two developers, one part-time support person, and a board of trustees (we’re a charity). It’s transitioned from a side-gig by the founder (the other developer) 9 years ago, to an in…

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## [The role of design(ers) within a cycle](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/the-role-of-design-ers-within-a-cycle/132)

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**Author:** [@david](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/u/david)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [January 21, 2020, 9:07pm UTC](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/the-role-of-design-ers-within-a-cycle/132 "2020-01-21T21:07:57Z")

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We’ve run 3 full cycles so far and something that we’ve yet to nail is the question of how to integrate designers and design work into these cycles. I’m looking to compare notes with others who might have experienced sim…

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## [Who's writing the pitches?](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/whos-writing-the-pitches/156)

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**Author:** [@Omid](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/u/Omid)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 21, 2020, 8:36am UTC](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/whos-writing-the-pitches/156 "2020-01-21T08:36:34Z")

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Hey there. I’ve adopted a good amount of the Shape Up process with much success! One thing that seems to be a challenge is who actually writes pitches and shapes the work. In the beginning I knew I would have to take on …

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## [Handing over responsibility and instilling a sense of ownership](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/handing-over-responsibility-and-instilling-a-sense-of-ownership/142)

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**Author:** [@JoshAntBrown](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/u/JoshAntBrown)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 17, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/handing-over-responsibility-and-instilling-a-sense-of-ownership/142 "2020-01-17T21:40:26Z")

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In Shape Up, one of the key elements that seem central to the success of a project is how much the team own it and feel responsible for it. I’d love to dig into this a little bit and explore some of the challenges and h…

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## [What about "strategy"?](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/what-about-strategy/34)

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**Author:** [@clavid](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/u/clavid)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 10, 2020, 12:38am UTC](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/what-about-strategy/34 "2020-01-10T00:38:46Z")

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@rjs - Would you consider guidance on how to develop higher-level “product strategy” to be outside the scope of Shape Up’s aim? It seems having a product strategy already formulated and aligned upon is assumed when comi…

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## [Breadboarding: Simplify with partials](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/breadboarding-simplify-with-partials/98)

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**Author:** [@rjs](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/u/rjs)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 9, 2020, 11:32pm UTC](https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/t/breadboarding-simplify-with-partials/98 "2020-01-09T23:32:34Z")

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Here’s a breadboarding technique I didn’t include in the book (yet). Sometimes there are too many affordances to list under a single screen. For example, say you wanted to breadboard what’s on this screen: How would …

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