— The person behind the reel
Stu Shapiro

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Shapiro.

Senior PM. Delivery Lead. The kind of person who spent too long building the perfect retro board before deciding to build a better tool instead.

RoleSenior Product Manager
FocusProduct · Delivery · Team rituals
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— Who I am

Product thinker. Delivery first.

I'm a Senior Product Manager with a background in delivery leadership. My work sits at the intersection of strategy, execution, and the rituals that hold teams together between the big moments.

I've spent years working with cross-functional teams — mapping problems, defining critical paths, building in phases, and making sure the people doing the work actually understand why they're doing it.

The test I apply to everything: does it match or beat the time it replaces? If it doesn't, ship it differently or don't ship it.

"The difference between a retro that works and one that doesn't is almost never the method. It's whether the room had a reason to care."

— Stu Shapiro · RetroCast founder

— Why I built RetroCast

I got tired of setting up the same blank board.

The honest answer: I was configuring the same Miro template for the fourth time in a month and thought there had to be a better way.

Not just a template with the columns pre-filled. Something that made the room worth showing up to before anyone had written a single sticky. Something with personality.

I ran the first version with a real team. They opened the board twenty minutes early — just to see who they'd been cast as. That was the proof of concept.

Let's connect.

I write about product thinking, delivery, and building with AI tools. Follow along on LinkedIn or reach out directly — always happy to talk shop.

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