Spotify Model Squads
Similar to scrum teams spotify has squads.
Spotify model squads. In fact the spotify model is the culture and you could get there without squads and tribes. A group of teams were organized into a department called a tribe each team was intended to be an autonomous mini startup with a product manager acting as mini ceo for a. Scaling agile spotify with tribes squads chapters guilds henrik kniberg anders ivarsson oct 2012 dealing with multiple teams in a product development organization is always a challenge. Spotify engineering model with squads tribes chapters and guilds.
More specifically this operational model complements spotify s business model in the following ways. As long spotify has a lot of different squads they needed to create some structure. In an organisation there can be multiple squads consisting of 6 12 people each dedicated to work on one feature area. The spotify model is a people driven autonomous approach for scaling agile that emphasizes the importance of culture and network.
Spotify agile squads jti ap 2017 m s conference. Henrik kniberg 71 379 views. Spotify had teams it called squads because it sounded cooler not joking. It has helped spotify and other organizations increase innovation and productivity by focusing on autonomy communication accountability and quality.
But you cannot get the so called spotify model with just squads and tribes. One of the most impressive examples we ve seen so far is spotify which has kept an agile mindset despite having scaled to over 30 teams across 3 cities. The kanban method is one of the most popular and effective ones. The spotify model implements such things as shared lounges to create inter squad interaction and regular informal team events and get together where the squads share what they are working on.
There is a role of tribe leader who is responsible for providing the right environment for all the squads. Here is a brief summary. There is a lot of useful methods of managing the workflow. Moreover the squads operational model enables the company to have a simple flexible business model to not only adapt to the sheer number of spotify users but also accommodate each user s distinct needs.
By emilia barska march 8 2017. Spotify employs an internal open source model their culture is more sharing than owning.