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

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOaar Joakim Sundén - Consultant, Speaker, Coach, Teacher at Crisp @joakimsunden3557 ORIGINAL TALK TITLE Agile Transformations Using The “Spotify Model”: Lessons From The Trenches RESOURCES 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 Download slides and read the full abstract here: RECOMMENDED BOOKS Joakim Sunden & Marcus Hammarberg • Kanban in Action • Ron Kohavi, Diane Tang & Ya Xu • Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments • Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Nicole Forsgren, Patrick Debois & John Willis • The DevOps Handbook • Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • Mary & Tom Poppendieck • Lean Software Development • Marty Cagan • Inspired • Marty Cagan • Empowered • #Transformation #AgileTransformation #DigitalTransformation #Agile #Agility #SpotifyModel #SAFe #Autonomy #AlignedAutonomy Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.