Chapter 7
Working in Tribes with the Spotify Engineering Culture
IN THIS CHAPTER
Organizing your people into squads, tribes, chapters, and guilds
Getting friendly with failure
Considering two approaches to product development
Figuring out whether the Spotify approach is best for you
Spotify is a digital streaming service that gives its subscribers access to a huge selection of music, podcasts, and videos via their smartphones and other electronic devices. The company developed its own approach to enterprise agility that borrows from numerous agile methodologies and practices, including Agile, Scrum, Lean Software Development, and Kanban. Spotify refers to its approach as the “Spotify Engineering Culture.”
Like other enterprise agile frameworks, Spotify’s approach is centered on self-organizing, cross-functional teams (called squads) collaborating to deliver value to customers. However, it’s less structured than most frameworks, such as Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®), Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), and Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD). In fact, it’s kind of messy. It may just be the most adaptive ...
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