There is no Spotify Model

Reflections about Spotify and the importance of understanding and influencing your company culture.

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1. There is no Spotify model Spark The Change 2016 S PARKING D ISRUPTION
2. #SparkConf #SparkLondon
5. “I believe in this concept, but the implementation described above is risky and invites failure.” Dr. Winston W. Royce
8. “Scrum is not a process or a technique for building products; rather, it is a framework within which you can employ various processes and techniques.” The Scrum Guide
10. Marcin Floryan Chapter Lead in Media Path tribe
11. Disclaimer Not official
12. Model (noun) ‣ a three-dimensional representation of a person or thing or of a proposed structure, typically on a smaller scale than the original ‣ a thing used as an example to follow or imitate ‣ a simplified description, especially a mathematical one, of a system or process, to assist calculations and predictions ‣ a person employed to display clothes by wearing them ‣ a particular design or version of a product Oxford Dictionary of English
13. Model (noun) ‣ a three-dimensional representation of a person or thing or of a proposed structure, typically on a smaller scale than the original ‣a thing used as an example to follow or imitate ‣ a simplified description, especially a mathematical one, of a system or process, to assist calculations and predictions ‣ a person employed to display clothes by wearing them ‣ a particular design or version of a product
16. ๏ 10 years old ๏ 100M users ๏ 30M subscribers ๏ 59 markets ๏ 5 dev offices ๏ 2000+ employees ๏ 100+ squads Spotify 2016
17. Model (noun) ‣ a three-dimensional representation of a person or thing or of a proposed structure, typically on a smaller scale than the original ‣a thing used as an example to follow or imitate ‣ a simplified description, especially a mathematical one, of a system or process, to assist calculations and predictions ‣ a person employed to display clothes by wearing them ‣ a particular design or version of a product
18. Model (noun) ‣ a three-dimensional representation of a person or thing or of a proposed structure, typically on a smaller scale than the original ‣ a thing used as an example to follow or imitate ‣a simplified description, especially a mathematical one, of a system or process, to assist calculations and predictions ‣ a person employed to display clothes by wearing them ‣ a particular design or version of a product
21. “Shout it out and I’ll tell you how it doesn’t quite work that way” Jason Yip, Agile Coach at Spotify
23. “Culture is an abstraction, yet the forces that are created in social and organisational situations deriving from culture are powerful. If we don’t understand the operation of these forces, we become victim to them” Edgar H. Schein
24. Schein culture model
25. Under the surface
26. Autonomy We assume…
32. Autonomy Mastery Purpose
33. Collaboration We assume…
36. Potential We assume…
38. Pelle 1:1
41. Diversity We assume…
44. Long term We assume…
45. Learning We assume…
46. “We aim to make mistakes faster than anyone else”
49. McGregor - Model Y ‣ The expenditure of physical and mental effort in work is as natural as play or rest ‣ Man will exercise self-direction and self-control in the service of objectives to which he is committed. ‣ The average human being learns, under proper conditions, not only to accept but to seek responsibility. ‣ The capacity to exercise a relatively high degree of imagination, ingenuity, and creativity in the solution of organizational problems is widely, not narrowly, distributed in the population. ‣ Under the conditions of modern industrial life, the intellectual potentialities of the average human being are only partially utilized.
50. “Only as we examine and test our theoretical assumptions can we hope to make them more adequate, to remove inconsistencies, and thus to improve our ability to predict.” Douglas McGregor
51. “The purpose of this volume is not to entice management to choose sides over Theory X or Theory Y. It is, rather, to encourage the realization that theory is important, to urge management to examine its assumptions and make them explicit” Douglas McGregor
52. “Stop trying to borrow wisdom and think for yourself. Face your difficulties and think and think and think and solve your problems yourself.” Taiichi Ohno
53. Thank you! Marcin Floryan Chapter Lead at Spotify Questions? @mfloryan