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Spotify Engineering Culture

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February 22, 2019
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Spotify Engineering Culture

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Transcript

  1. Spotify Engineering Culture Jethro David SDE @Bizzy Indonesia

  2. ENGINEERING CULTURE

  3. WHY SPOTIFY CULTURE?

  4. When it started People Services Innovation Big Projects

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  10. Because it’s motivating

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  25. Limited blast radius

  26. When it started People Services Innovation Big Projects

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  32. Limited blast radius

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  37. When it started People Services Innovation Big Projects

  38. People are natural Innovators

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  46. When it started People Services Innovation Big Projects

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  50. AWESOME ARCHITECTURE

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  52. Balance Point

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  54. Key Points: - High Alignment & High Autonomy - Focus

    on People, Encourage Failure. - Small Release, Decoupled Release, Feature Toggle, Limited Blast Radius. - Hack Week, Try A or B, Keep what works otherwise drop it. - Visual Progress, Weekly Demo, Daily Sync, Awesome Architecture,

  55. healthy culture heals broken process Daniel, Ek, CEO Spotify

  56. Q&A

  57. Thank You

  58. Learning Reference: https://medium.com/the-ready/how-to-build-your-own-spotify- model-dce98025d32f https://www.youtube.com/watch?q=spotify-culture&u=Andreas Tjernsli