Ryan Singer
Fractional CPO & Author @ Felt Presence LLC
Author of Shape Up. Former Head of Strategy at 37signals/Basecamp.
“A better way to plan, build, and ship products, covering product design, team leadership, and engineering tradeoffs.”
Career History
| Company | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Felt Presence LLC | Fractional CPO & Author | ~2019-present |
| Basecamp (37signals) | Head of Strategy | ~2003-2019 |
Episodes (1)
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“I am really happy to be here. Thanks a lot.”
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)
“Yeah, I think it's interesting that we're talking now. I mean, the book came out in 2019 and it's, I've been hearing more and more like, "Oh, we know somebody who's trying it or we're hearing it when ...”
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)
“And it's funny, when it came out, I even tried to have an online forum to get everyone who's interested to talk together and what I started to learn pretty early on is that people don't like to talk a...”
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)
“Especially CPOs and CTOs don't like to go on a public forum and say, "Our company isn't shipping or our engineering team is stuck, or our team is always lost in the weeds." That's not an easy communit...”
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)
“So, I think, there's also some reasons why it's been word of mouth slowly gathering steam.”
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)
“Oh yeah, that's great. Yeah, because it's so hard to get to that, right? And it's not all just this golden path, rosy, where we're all shipping beautiful, meaningful things all day.”
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)
“It's a hard business and there's no perfect school either that produces expert product managers and CPOs and CTOs and stuff like that. So we're all trying to figure this out and we don't have a lot of...”
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)
“At the same time, there is also a lot of questions that are coming in my way because honestly, there are so few teams that are structured just like Basecamp, that there are a lot of gaps in the book o...”
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)
“Yeah. Well, my wife heard me saying the same thing over and over again on every phone call. And she's overhearing me and she's like, "You have to make a course, you have to do something. You always ar...”
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)
“I think the way it's different starts with how the way we were working was a little bit different. So, I started working with Jason and David on the first version of Basecamp, which was the flagship p...”
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)
“We don't want to ever give something that this is the thing we want to build, and then it turns out not to be what we want and we have to throw it away and then come back again or you know what I mean...”
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)
“Well, Rails came out of the first... So, he told Jason, "I want to try building this in Ruby," because before they had done some collaboration and David had done things in PHP before that and he had t...”
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up,” early employee at 37signals)