Anyone tried Shaping Up across multiple products?

[maxhodges]

@Aylon even the author of ShapeUp is in agreement with me: “For a while, the first set of cycles were purely R&D cycles.”

HEY and the Shape Up method

We used Shape Up 100% for Hey. 6 weeks at a time! That’s the whole idea. Choose what is most important first, make a six week commitment, then pick the next most important thing. We never made a specific commitment longer than six weeks, except for the broad commitment that some number of cycles would go toward Hey instead of Basecamp. For a while, the first set of cycles were purely R&D cycles. That means the work wasn’t really shaped, and the shaping and building happened in a blurry mix. T…