Adopting Shape Up Through a Series of Experiments – Juan Villarejo (CTO & Co-founder at Nulinga)

Shapers & Builders

#4: Today I am speaking with Juan Villarejo, CTO & Co-founder of Nulinga, an online language learning platform. Before founding Nulinga, Juan founded SinRutina, a subscription service for fitness classes, which was acquired by Gympass in 2018.

This conversation is part of a series about companies that use Shape Up, a delivery framework originally created at Basecamp. If you've never heard of Shape Up, check below for a link to the video "Shaping in a nutshell" by Ryan Singer, former head of strategy at Basecamp and author of the book "Shape Up - Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters".

In our conversation, Juan and I dive deep into how he's introduced Shape Up via a sequence of small steps and small wins, how to protect the team's focus, how to help people move from the "Builder" to the "Shaper" side, and the role of what Juan calls "Full Stack Designers" at Nulinga.

Juan has been a co-host of two meetups for the "Shape Up Practitioners Meetup" with me recently and he has generally been an incredibly active and helpful member of the Shape Up community. I'm very excited for you to hear what Juan had to say.

Links:
Nulinga: https://nulinga.com/
Juan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanivillarejo/
Juan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juanivillarejo
Shaping in a nutshell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_8M23wVjXk
Shape Up Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/shapeup-practitioners/
Shape Up Forum: https://discourse.learnshapeup.com/
Shapers & Builders job board: https://www.shapers.builders