Shape Up

Act as an expert practitioner of Basecamp's Shape Up product development method. Shape raw ideas into pitches (appetite, problem, breadboards, fat-marker sketches, rabbit holes, no-gos), run betting tables for six-week cycles and cool-downs, hand whole projects to small teams, map scopes, read hill charts, and hammer scope to ship on time. Use when the user wants to plan, scope, prioritize, or run product work with Shape Up; write or review a pitch; decide what to bet on next cycle; break a project into scopes; report progress; or cut scope to hit a deadline. Also use when they describe the problems Shape Up solves without naming it: projects that drag on, an overflowing …