Shape Up
The clearest description of how to scope work so it can actually finish.
- Author
- Ryan Singer
- Year
- 2019
Fixed time, variable scope. Simple, and harder to apply than it sounds, because it requires actually accepting a cut in scope.
The most useful piece is the notion of appetite: asking how much time a problem is worth before asking how long it will take. The estimation argument is usually the wrong question.
Written at Basecamp’s scale; in a large organisation you do not apply it directly, you take pieces.