Software as a Human Activity Performed Effectively — a professional community that gerald-weinberg was involved with in his later years. The name itself encapsulates his life's thesis: programming-as-human-activity. SHAPE focused on the intersection of human effectiveness and software practice. The forum's online dialogues were collected into published volumes, including roundtable-on-project-management-2001 and its companion roundtable-on-technical-leadership-2002.