July 23, 2026
4 min read
Process Drift
Project management software has been dominated by Agile Scrum mechanics for over twenty years — the backlog, estimates, sprints, and burn-down charts are built into the tools themselves. The Shape Up manual came out in 2019. If you run Shape Up in a tool built for Scrum, you end up running two methodologies in fragments, and no matter which one you intend to follow, Scrum is bound to creep back into your workflow.