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This is somewhat similar to the Shape Up methodology from Basecamp [0] where there's a 2 week "cool down" at the end of every development cycle. So 6 weeks of f
by kevsim 4y ago
This is somewhat similar to the Shape Up methodology from Basecamp [0] where there's a 2 week "cool down" at the end of every development cycle. So 6 weeks of feature development, followed by 2 weeks of bug fixing, refactoring, etc.
I've never done it in practice so I don't know how well it really works and there are some other parts of Shape Up that I disagree with strongly.
0: https://basecamp.com/shapeup https://basecamp.com/shapeup
- theptip 4y agoIf you can afford that level of slack, I think you will build a very happy, long-term-focused org. Worth noting that they build and open-source frameworks like Rails, Hotwire; if you want to polish and share, you need extra bandwidth vs. just building internal-facing products.