Shape Up for Consulting Work

During the holidays I found the time to read a surprisingly wonderful book: Shape Up by Rian Singer. I came about it in a blog post about alternative engineering practices on daily.dev, which I obviously forgot to bookmark and, therefore, cannot mention here (nevermind, found it). For the people who do not know Rian Singer (I was among them before reading the book), he is a product strategist at 37signals, the company that builds Basecamp. The Shape Up book details the project management process of the same name used at 37signals. As a longterm admirer of Basecamp, I was immediately intrigued. ...

31 December 2025 · 11 min