Agile Transformations Using The “Spotify Model” • Joakim Sunden • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOaar
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Joakim Sundén - Consultant, Speaker, Coach, Teacher at Crisp ‪@joakimsunden3557‬
ORIGINAL TALK TITLE
Agile Transformations Using The “Spotify Model”: Lessons From The Trenches
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ABSTRACT
For a long time Spotify people (including me!) have tried to convince the world that there is no “Spotify Model” and if there ever was one, Spotify isn’t using it anyway and you shouldn’t either. And yet, countless organizations are using the Spotify model to drive their agile transformations, some of them claiming huge successes. So, let’s stop kidding ourselves and instead look at how the Spotify model is actually being used and what we can learn from these organizations.
This talk will be structured around the change journey of one organization that I worked with for two years, where we used tribes, squads and other “Spotify concepts” as part of the transformation. I will share lessons from what I believe worked well and what I believe could have been done in a better way. I will also incorporate the experience from other client work as well as from having run the course “Agile at Scale, Inspired by Spotify” dozens of times all over the world. [...]
TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
06:04 Lessons are based on
06:48 2 types of lessons learned
09:31 Understand where you are
12:36 Develop vision & principles
16:20 It's a marathon, not a sprint
24:38 Integrate business & IT through mission based tribes
28:27 The autonomous squad
32:56 Prepare to insource
40:09 Aligned autonomy
44:48 So how did it go?
46:43 Outro
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[@fringefringe7282]

Yeah, outsource everything to India. Thats an idea!

[@Reflekt0r]

A good and somber talk.
The terminology of the model is pretty awful, mixing terms from different semantic fields.

[@shishirarora8808]

Useless