How to copy Spotify in 30 min (April 2016)

A version of this talk give at Spotify STO for our Agile meet up on April 14th 2016

1. How to copy Spotify in 30 min* Cliff Hazell Coach at Spotify Find me on Twitter: @ixhd
2. Perhaps? Seen our “model” Henrik’s Videos? Conference Talks?
4. All models are wrong… some are useful (just a snap shot)
5. Some things we avoid Why we avoid them What we do instead
7. Culture is necessary but not sufficient
8. What’s it like inside?
9. IT Shelf - Project Lolipop Lollipop
11. Pelle 1:1
13. The Story of a Learning Organization
14. “Be the best at getting better”
15. Punishing Failure Avoid
17. “Each organisation is perfectly designed for the results it’s achieving”
18. Celebrate Learning Instead
19. Hero Worship Avoid
20. “A system is not the sum of it’s parts, but the product of its interactions”
21. Collaboration Encourage
23. Centralizing all Decisions and Control Avoid
24. 
 “Decentralising control requires decentralising both authority to make decisions and the information to make them correctly” Don Reinertsen
25. Leadership at all Levels Encourage
27. Clarity Conditions Constraints
28. “More companies die of indigestion than starvation”
29. Clarity != Detail
30. Celebrate Learning Encourage Collaboration Leadership at all Levels
31. But, We’re special: “People won’t do work if we don’t tell them!” “Teaching, Mentoring and Coaching is too expensive!” “We don’t have time to change how we work”
33. How can I get better at getting better?
34. Go to the Gemba Safe to Fail experiments Get a Mentor or Coach
35. Thank you Cliff Hazell Coach at Spotify Find me on Twitter: @ixhd