how spotify stays lean from small start-up through rapid-growth (joakim sunden) - lkce13
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In a few years Spotify has grown from a small startup in Sweden to a pretty big company with more than 30 engineering teams in four different development offices on two different continents. And we have no intention of slowing down. Such rapid growth carries big challenges. How can we continue to improve our product at great speed, while growing the number of users, employees and supported platforms and devices? How do we stay lean and agile when we grow from a small startup to a big corporation? In this talk we will present how Spotify is addressing these challenges. We will talk about autonomous squads, tribes, guilds, hack weeks, road managers, and a lot of other ideas we’re experimenting with.TRANSCRIPT
staying lean from small start-up through rapid growth
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The right music for every moment
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24M active users. 6M paying subscribers.
20M songs.
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32 countries
Growing fast 30
3 years ago
Growing fast 250
30 100
10
Now
Development speed that scales
Autonomy
• “Feel like a mini-startup” • Self-organizing
• Cross-functional
• 5-7 engineers, less than 10
Squad
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Example squads
Pics of squad rooms
Process that fits
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Scrum Kanbanesque Kanban Other
Process
Autonomous squad • Dedicated product owner
• Agile coach
• Influencing work
• Easy to release
• A process that fits the team
• A mission
• Organizational support
P
C
Autonomous squad surveys
P
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Are we there yet?
Structure and alignment
P P P P Squad Squad Squad Squad
Chapter
Chapter
Chapters
P P P P Squad Squad Squad Squad
Chapter
Chapter
Chapter Lead
Personal development
Training and knowledge sharing
Boot camp
Tribes ”Provide fast and
reliable access to all the world's music”
”Enable high product development speed while maintaining a
highly available service”
P P P P Squad Squad Squad Squad
Chapter
Chapter
P P P P Squad Squad Squad Squad
Chapter
Chapter
Network organization
Tribe Tribe
Dependencies
Tribe Tribe
Structure happens!
Guilds
P P P P Squad Squad Squad Squad
Chapter
Chapter
P P P P Squad Squad Squad Squad
Chapter
Chapter
Guild
Autonomy vs. Alignment Autonomy
Alignment
Autonomy vs. Alignment A
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ent
Autonomy
Micromanaging organization Indifferent culture
Authoritative organization Conformist culture
Entrepreneurial organization
Chaotic culture
Innovative organization
Collaborative culture
Source: Stephen Bungay
Vision
Product
P P P P Squad Squad Squad Squad
Product
OKR Objectives & Key Results
Projects
Project
tinyurl.com/HowSpotifyBuilds
Big retrospectives & post-mortems
Improvement and definition of awesome
Happy employees
Source: glassdoor.com
% of employees that would recommend this company to a friend
Trust
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Internal blog:
Celebrate failure!
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Internal blog:
Joakim Sundén @joakimsunden
[email protected] www.joakimsunden.com
http://tinyurl.com/KanbanInAction