As we think about audacious goals for next year and how to organize teams for success, we’re thinking about the skills required for team flow. If you’re familiar with Shape Up, you’re also familiar with the Hill Chart analogy of progress. You begin with a large space of optionality; you start by figuring things out, discovering unknowns, and feeling around the edges. Then the work transitions into getting things done, putting the pieces into place, and getting everything to work together.
Engineers who navigate optionality (going…
As we think about audacious goals for next year and how to organize teams for success, we’re thinking about the skills required for team flow. If you’re familiar with Shape Up, you’re also familiar with the Hill Chart analogy of progress. You begin with a large space of optionality; you start by figuring things out, discovering unknowns, and feeling around the edges. Then the work transitions into getting things done, putting the pieces into place, and getting everything to work together.