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Agile at Spotify

2014-02-07
  • Joakim Sunden
    • 2013-04-01

    • 3 factors lead to better performance and personal satisfaction

      • autonomy
      • mastery
      • purpose

    • Autonomous squad

      • like a mini-startup
      • self-organizing
      • cross-functional
      • 5-7 engineers, less than 10
      • dedicated PO
      • dedicated agile coach (scrum master?)
      • defined mission means that every member becomes a domain-expert

    • provision ‘fika zones’, areas for small meetings

    • Chapter

      • focused on a certain technological cross-cut (e.g. webdev, backend, QA, payments)
      • knowledge sharing and technical development
      • Has a chapter lead

    • Professional development

      • Experimenting with “add-ons” (e.g., expert, teacher, coach)

    • Tribe

      • Squad:Tribe is many:1
      • 20-100 people
      • clear and defined mission
      • joined by a set of foundation principles applying to all tribes
      • Squads always collaborate directly (never through tribe leaders)

    • On-demand Scrum of Scrums

      • Not all teams need to talk to one another all the time, too overwhelming

    • Guild

      • Community of interest for some topic
      • Membership is totally freeform
        • Is opt-out for some relevant chapter
        • Is opt-in for all others
        • One person may be in many guilds
      • Guild coordinator(s)
        • main contact point for the guild
        • bootstrap the guild into self-organizing