Spotify Engineering Culture - Part 1 (aka the "Spotify Model")

[@lecemotta]

Another fantastic video. You are so good in drawing and story telling. So clear and to the point! Congrats!

[@junecwanglove]

Hi Henrik, the video you made is not only informative but also very inspiring. Thank you.

[@palmaly]

Really good example to explain agile working in engineering culture. Thanks Henrik.

[@pattydonohue5452]

BRILLIANT. I'm so jealous. I would love to work in an autonomous dev environment. Thanks so much for these tutorials.

[@afiftarkhani8093]

Srsly this is the most amazing thing on youtube. Please don't stop!

[@PS-lh3qs]

Dear Lord.. This was basically Music ! Love it

[@segunasiru2600]

wholesome. Sportify being explain with ease. I understand sportify much better now.

[@tyrellperera]

The 2 videos that started a movement. ❤️👍🏼

[@ioanasusan4767]

I would be so curious to know how this whole process evolved from 2014 and mostly how this survived the pandemic and remote work. Does this intensely collaborative approach (closely working together in rooms with whiteboards instead of walls) work well with people working remote? Will there be a part 3?

[@amit_perez]

+1!!!! 😮

[@JuanDebrecen]

Great question, would love to hear an update from the current teams at Spotify. One thing is for sure: McKinsey sold this "spotify model" to companies as key to the gates of eternal prosperity. (barf) Now banks, insurance, insurane and pharma companies use it. Companies that have nothing in common whatsoever with Scandinavian IT company developing a streaming software. I love this model, but anyone who uses it exactly like this is going to fail. And guess what, Spotify is (obviously) has moved pretty far from this model. Because they adopted.

[@R0hi]

It's one of the best quality product out there

[@hanliespangenberg2765]

a Perfect overview on POs. Thank you

[@manishankarsingh7748]

This is real agility that is needed in every organisation.

[@GasparSilva]

FANTASTIC! It literally paints a pretty picture on how Spotify managed to achieve greatness: the platform is a direct reflection of the people maintaining it! KUDOS to Spotify!

[@khengwahkoh1359]

Excellent case study, great illustration of Agile in practice!

[@christiancruz5705]

such a good storytelling! congrats!!!

[@id-harry-on-cloud4570]

I think the concept is fantastic, and it did inspired a lot of organization to adopt this agile model. However not so many of them having a good understanding of the various factors that construct it and get into their expectation by doing this approach.

[@veliromn]

Love this video! Thank you, and keep on adding more content on this!

[@nitinposwal108]

Hi Henrik, this is an awesome video, very informative and inspiring. Thanks! A great solution to lot of cultural problems I have seen in many companies with leadership struggling to solve it. Question: How do you ensure visibility of work across multiple squads within the same flavor of squads to avoid duplicate work and/or to ensure pairing related

[@georgehalet8997]

How are you adjusting your in-person collaboration methods to social distancing in the pandemic environment? Was listening to Sam Harris interview Matt Mullenwegg of Automattic about distributed collaboration and thought back to your model and how awesome it seemed at the time.

[@itsmemasud]

incredible... what a culture spotify owns!

[@PippeML]

I love this!!! Very well done!

[@katharinaciesla2447]

Great Video, both this and part 2. Thank you Henrik!

[@SunandaM-b6x]

Very helpful and informative video

[@mohammadel-adawy321]

Thats an amazing video!

[@padyala]

Nice explanation. Good for a change out the 10 implementations in this model how many passed would be a good source of inspiration to follow. Really big complex projects would be a good focus for the statistics.

[@bilelkhedira]

Thanks for sharing knowledge, what is the drawing tool used to make such videos please ?

[@Gayashan4lk]

Amazing. ❤❤

[@AmsNl2BcnEs]

Would love to know more about the infrastructure squads. These are such good videos, hope to see more.

[@expatExperience]

Great explanation man ! than you

[@shuvlen]

Outstanding. Think, trust & help.

[@SkateCityDK]

Very inspiring ..thank you

[@melvinsagini1198]

is there an update of the current structure for 2019?

[@WildTraderAppeared]

done well ! liked it very deep !

[@soaresmiltinho]

Very interesting

[@muh442]

Really incredible, But I am wondering how this was the experience during the pandamic.

[@arunjoseph662]

What is the tool used for this whiteboard?

[@shawnlukemusic]

In the comments of the video I saw that the author wrote "Many people ask which tools were used. I hand-drew everything in ArtRage using a Wacom drawing tablet, and recorded the drawing and speaking using ScreenFlow."

[@MohammedAlabed]

It is an awesome!

[@DuBoisDrumstix308]

How does product management fit in with squads and tribes at Spotify?

[@fadichamieh]

Amazing

[@ibtihalgamal8197]

really goood

[@MarceldeJong]

7:15 If I were part of that 4%, I would be hesitant to reply to that email. Employee satisfaction surveys are anonymous for a reason. I don't want to risk my job by telling my manager(s) that I'm unhappy. And I'd be more likely to lie on the next survey.

[@gnerkus]

Yup. To paint an extreme, dark picture: Say 4 of 20 are dissatisfied; so satisfaction is 80%. The 4 speak to HR, 'doxxing' themselves. Then HR makes their work difficult and 2 of them resign. Now you have 2 of 18 being dissatisfied; satisfaction is raised to 88%.

[@u1zha]

Haha you're grossly misunderstanding the point the video was making. Servant leadership is when you listen to feedback and improve things. What idiot manager would accept feedback and then create problems for the messenger instead of fixing the fixable causes?

[@akiraash01]

The link to the full drawing is broken

[@Malpekar-mo4wb]

Nice video

[@v.deepak]

Trust > Control !

[@NavidKalaei]

AWESOME!!!!!

[@donnaboucher295]

I was wondering if you would give permission for us to link to your video from one of our courses?

[@henrikkniberg]

Sure, feel free.

[@AmsNl2BcnEs]

What the leaders doing in their day to day job? Defining a problem and communicating it is ok but that probably doesn’t happen every day?

[@sigha2b2t]

I want to work at Spotify now

[@henrikkniberg]

Note, the video is from 2014...

[@fordword]

I want a room filled with whiteboards.

[@darrendub7433]

Is there really someone at Spotify named Json P? :D

[@u1zha]

One of Spotify company values is being Playful. Odd squad names and system names and ofc odd shenanigans with peoples names were par for the course

[@Skovgaard1975]

Release trains - So....You are not done with your feature but it still must be deployed because unmerged code is code debt? But if every squad has there own area?? And via a toggle you hide the functionality and still use the old code. So you cannot change the old code when doing a feature but must create new code which will coexist with the old....Seems cumbersome... And so you carry this code debt around....until when? When you have rolled out to all people and then you remove the old code - risking errors again which are then rolled out to everybody?

[@EdGreenberg]

I'm having trouble visualizing this. Our 505 branch is being followed by a 506. I can't imagine how to keep 505 working and also "release" 506. perhaps it's because we aren't building new features, but enhancing existing ones. So how to do this? Do you fill the code up with if statements? Or what?

[@angbuxton3132]

yall need a pop screen

[@AndrewEddie]

Has anything changed in 5 years?

[@henrikkniberg]

Of course!

[@StephanRiess]

@@henrikkniberg Any video / blog entry on how the change looks like? What is the most important part which has changed and why? This would be a very interesting info for all of us who try to lift product teams out of the water. Thanks a lot in advance.

[@adnen.benali]

@@henrikkniberg We would love to see a new video Henrik on your perspective on the changes that you've experienced - "Especially" with the stay-at-home 2020/2021 situation. What would it take for us to raise the priority of this request in your backlog? :)

[@robertf7626]

Perfect !!! :-)

[@Skovgaard1975]

I don't get why the Scrum Team is renamed to Autonomous Squad. There does not seem to be any difference. Aren't Scrum Teams autonomous? Is it because there is no PO to influence the team? Or is it because you want to change enough to justify calling it "Spotify model" :)

[@clairecabal5709]

I do not see the change as an industry grade improvement, its "spotifying it", if it works for them then so be it.

[@philippscheit5129]

[@sploofyspluff3841]

Cool

[@jimdevalk]

Double like, listen to dialyse mix on spotify

[@williamfletcher5146]

Spotify isn't very impressive Vs KZbin which is why so few people made the change.

[@mrjohn5332]

If only Spotify wasn't buggy 😅. Podcasts are still super glitchy, sometimes search just doesn't work. Shit like that is super frustrating after all these years

[@Skovgaard1975]

"No politics" We reserve that for banning Joe Rogan's podcasts...