You want to adopt the “Spotify Model”? I don’t think it means what you think it means!’

Scrum and beyond…

So your company has a matrix organisation model? Then you saw the Spotify organisation model with Tribes and Chapters and you thought; “Hey, we can keep our good old matrix organisation and simply rename it to “The Spotify Model!” Did you? Do you think this makes you a front-runner? Well, think again.

It doesn’t work to take this model:

Change some words:

And make it look more informal:

This misses the mark of the videos Spotify engineering culture part 1 and Spotify engineering culture part 2. There is so much more vital information that shouldn’t be ignored!

How did it miss the point of the Spotify engineering culture videos?

Yes, the organisation model in the video is a light matrix. But the chapter lead is a servant leader, focusing on…