Our team is changing our sprint planning and product delivery framework, adopting the ShapeUp approach based on insights from Ryan Singer’s book.
Here’s what excites me:
- The prospect of consistent on-time delivery.
- Transitioning to 6-week cycles from the traditional 2-week sprints, easing the repetitive strain of sprint planning.
- As a product manager, I’ll have more time to delve into customer issues and develop well-defined proposals for our upcoming build phases.
- The opportunity to ditch an ever-growing and cumbersome backlog.
- Greater autonomy for our engineers and designers.
- Implementing a two-week cooldown phase to tackle bugs and technical debt.
My concerns include:
- The potential shift towards a more waterfall release methodology.
- Moving away from daily stand-ups.
- Questioning the effectiveness of this method compared to the tried and tested Scrum framework.
- Potential dips in team engagement and a rise in feeling isolated.
To mitigate these concerns:
- We’re instituting a weekly all-hands meeting in place of daily stand-ups.
- My co-founder and I have scheduled regular check-ins.
We’re committed to fully embracing the ShapeUp method for the first few cycles, following the book’s guidance to the letter. We’ll share our journey and learnings as we progress!
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