Spotify Model

The top 3 points you should have paid attention to in the Spotify Engineering Culture videos that aren’t Squads, Chapters, Tribes, Guilds from February with 12.7k views and 4.2k reads. Riffing off the “Spotify Model” seems popular. Not too far behind is My take on why goal cascades are harmful…

During my years at plista — an ad-tech company headquartered in Berlin — I have seen, experienced and designed several team structures in action. By now I’m certain this journey will never end. It’s an organic evolution fueled by the company’s needs and the industry’s experience. Right in these…

Last month saw the premiere of The Playlist, a new Netflix fictional show about Spotify’s origin story. It has been suggested that the creators really emphasize that it’s “fiction” to stop people portrayed, or Spotify, from taking legal action. I personally think it has more to do with the fact…

Such a clickbait headline, right? I know… But for me, this is a personal matter as I have dealt with many orgs that try to apply the Spotify model for an unknown reason. The first question I ask is: Why? The answer is most of the time: We are scaling…

This is purely a product of my own thinking about improving the efficiency of internal communication and project delivery, hypothesising whether the new organisation structure can be successful (if ever implemented) in delivering streamlined internal communications, and in delivering projects without sacrificing people. — Background Context About 2 years ago, technical leaders including me, had a quarterly meeting with top level management. Our main topic back at that time was to discuss on how to improve work-life balance and project delivery — with specifically one of the on-going projects as an example. …

Organisations are either born or unborn into the Agile culture Some companies are born Agile, but as they grow over the years, they might not completely enjoy the benefits of it, due to the size or complexity of the dependencies. They would need to scale and transition to a new…

When building digital products, we all want to feel like we’re doing it the right way. And nothing feels more satisfying than feeling like you’ve finally found the perfect framework or methodology that’ll help you do that. Unfortunately there are so many to choose from! So it’s important to do…