alt Hacker News> Most companies assign requirements, assert a deadline, and treat quality as an output. We tend to do the opposite. Given a standard of quality, what can we ship in 60 days?
This sounds like the Six Week Cycles and "Fixed time, variable scope" from Shape Up: https://basecamp.com/shapeup/1.2-chapter-03#fixed-time-varia...
They're absolutely describing Shape Up, but without agreeing on what the valuable things are to build - apparently engineers can figure all that out by themselves. I have my doubts.