My mission is to improve the world of work, to empower people and teams, to create awesome organizations and products customers love
Consultant, keynote speaker, teacher, author
Lean-Agile organizations, leadership, coaching
Join my live online Product and Spotify model course
As more and more people become intrigued by the inner workings of the best tech-powered companies, the term “Product Model” has emerged to describe the common principles and practices shared by companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix, and Spotify. Companies that understand the necessity of creating an environment where empowered product teams can exercise their creativity, discovering and delivering innovative solutions that not only customers love, but also drive business success.
This course aims to explain what those principles and practices are and how you can apply them in your organization to create a similar environment. The course makes heavy use of examples and cases from these and other companies. Many of the examples are based on my firsthand experience from having been directly involved in co-creating “the Spotify Model”, Spotify’s version of a Product Model, during the six years the company grew from 10 to 200+ teams. The course also covers Marty Cagan’s and SVPG’s definition of a Product Model (or Product Operating Model) and partly uses it as a structure to introduce specific principles, practices, and examples.
I’m running a remote live online version of the course January 13-15 – enter joakimsunden.com in comments to receive a 10% discount. Do you want me to run the course in-house exclusively for your organization? Contact me for more details and/or connect with me on LinkedIn.
My Mission
My mission is to improve the world of work, to empower people and teams, to create awesome organizations. Work is a big and important part of most people’s lives and it can have an amazing impact for personal growth, as well as create value and happiness for ourselves and others.
Unfortunately many organizations fail to create the conditions for this to happen, instead creating a path to disengagement and unhappiness. To me, improving the world of work means developing organizations where people are empowered and encouraged to be awesome, leveraging the creativity and innovation in all of us to create products the customers love, and ultimately a better world for all of us. My personal contribution is often helping leaders to improve their organizations, to create the necessary conditions for empowering teams and people; removing obstacles to engagement, collaboration and innovation.
ABOUT ME
JOAKIM SUNDÉN
Helping people and organizations to be awesome
I’m a founding partner of Better Product Work, where I help visionary leaders challenge the conventional way of building products. From 2011 to 2017 I worked as an Agile Coach at Spotify where I was part of a group of people working together with the CTO to develop a new approach to Agile at scale, aka “The Spotify Model” with Tribes, Squads, Chapters and Guilds.
Keynote Speaker
I’ve been invited to speak at conferences for more than 15 years and I really enjoy sharing what I’ve learned during my 20 years in the industry. I would love to get a chance to inspire the audience at your next event.
Consulting
I help make people and organizations awesome, typically working with leadership teams to navigate the challenges of moving towards an Agile network organization of empowered product teams, whether it’s scaling your growing start-up or improving your already successful organization to stay competitive. I’m not attached to any particular framework but besides being one of the people developing Spotify’s early approach with Tribes, Chapters and Squads, I’m also a SAFe Program Consultant and a Certified Less Practitioner.
Teaching
Teaching is an important part of my consulting work but I also offer stand alone classes, public and in-house, on topics such as Agile at Scale Inspired by Spotify, Agile/Servant/Intent-Based Leadership, Agile Strategy with OKRs, and Leading SAFe.
Speaking
Author
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