[ONLINE] Inaugural Shape Up Practitioners Meetup 🎉

Let’s get together and exchange stories of how we’ve all tried, succeeded or failed to implement Shape Up in our teams and organisations. The format of this meetup will be a ≈45 min talk, plus Q&A and networking.

The meeting will be hosted via Zoom and guests who’ve RSVP’d will receive a zoom meeting link via email on the day of the event (make sure you've enabled email notifications from this group at least!).

Since this is a remote meetup, the format itself will be an experiment and I’m hoping to learn, over time, what works and what doesn’t work to facilitate good remote discussions and peer learning. So bear with me.

We'll start at 7pm UTC, which should be suitable for most Europeans to join after work, and others from the US to talk with us over their lunch brakes. ;)

About the speaker: Mike Bartlett, VP Product at Slite, will be speaking about

538 Days Later
A journey through adopting a new way to work

I’m beyond excited to be able to announce Mike (https://bit.ly/2Uz7gVZ) as our first speaker in this series. Mike’s team has been using Shape Up to build Slite since October 2018. By this, they must surely count as Shape Up veterans. Mike will share their particular flavor and highlight which bits they’ve adopted and which they haven’t. I know Mike and his team have been very conscious about tweaking Shape Up to their particular needs and can’t wait to get his insights into the thought process behind it.

Mike’s talk will be about 45 mins long and split into 3 parts (roughly: “Why Shape Up?”, “Adoption & Growing Pains” and “What it looks like today”). Each of the three parts will be followed by up to 10 mins of Q&A.

The Zoom meeting will be recorded.

Here’s the full agenda for the meetup:

• 6:55 pm (UTC): “doors” open; the talk will start at 7pm sharp, so make sure to join the Zoom meeting on time.
• 7:00 pm – 8:15: Mike’s presentation on “538 Days Later”, incl. 3 slots of Q&A
• 8:15 pm and later: Open networking for whoever wants to stick around

Can’t wait to see you all on Wednesday!