World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

ShapeShift: Reinventing Agile for a B2B SaaS Scale-Up

Milton Leon Rodriguez

Is rigid Scrum actually slowing your engineering team down? See how one scale-up replaced by-the-book Agile with a custom framework to eliminate bottlenecks and conquer technical debt.

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#1 about 2 min

Reevaluating agile practices and end-to-end product outcomes

Questioning whether teams are achieving real product outcomes or just following rigid methodologies.

#2 about 2 min

Identifying bottlenecks in sprint routines and product management

How routine refinements and overloaded product managers create bottlenecks that hinder engineering tasks.

#3 about 1 min

Combining frameworks to create a custom agile methodology

Forging a new collaborative framework by blending the most effective elements of scrum and shape up.

#4 about 1 min

Implementing six-week focus cycles and cooldown sprints

Structuring workflows with dedicated six-week build cycles followed by two weeks for addressing technical debt.

#5 about 1 min

Replacing routine team refinements with on-demand meetings

Eliminating mandatory refinement sessions in favor of targeted discussions only when engineers require specific information.

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Transitioning to agile methodologies for faster software delivery

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Applying design thinking and lean software development principles

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Using Scrum, stoicism, and systems thinking for engineering

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Accelerating software delivery through minimum viable products

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4:14 min

Adopting the shape up software development methodology

Sebastian Gierlinger Sebastian Gierlinger · World Congress 2025

4:43 min

Integrating design thinking with agile delivery

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