The Product Model at Spotify
Do you want to learn more about The Product Model? Read more about my course on Crisp’s website! Joakim’s Note: Spotify is an exceptional company, the best I’ve ever worked for. When I left the company after more than six years, I wanted to help…
Essence partnership with Ivar Jacobson (IJI)
Ivar Jacobson (IJI) and Joakim Sundén are delighted to announce a partnership to describe the “Spotify Model” to help people better understand what it is, and using Essence as an enabler, evolve the industries understanding of how it can be of value. The collaboration to “Essentialize” (render using…
What they actually got right in “The Playlist” – A Spotify insider’s perspective on the new Netflix show
Last week saw the premiere of The Playlist, a new Netflix fictional show about Spotify’s origin story. It has been suggested that the creators really emphasize that it’s “fiction” to stop people portrayed, or Spotify, from taking legal action. I personally think it has more…
The “Spotify Model” Demystified and Made Applicable through Essence
This article is a collaboration between Joakim Sundén and Stefan Malich. We do not work at Spotify and the views and opinions expressed here are our own, and do not express the views or opinions of Spotify. Thanks to Simon Girvan for review and creation…
Customer Obsession and Agile Mindset at Riot Games
Last year I got the chance to participate in the SD Learning Consortium (SDLC) as a Spotify representant. I got the chance to visit several very interesting companies who are all on a journey to discover together the world’s most advanced Agile goals, principles and practices…
The Agile Coach role at Spotify
“What does an agile coach do at Spotify?” This is a very common question when we host study tours in our office or when we speak at conferences. It is also a very good question because it makes us think about how we work and…
Agile at Spotify
My colleague Anders Ivarsson and I have been invited to different conferences and events to present about how we use agile and lean thinking at Spotify. One of the conferences we recently presented at was Kanban Open Space in Ghent where we were asked to…
Agile à la Spotify
At Spotify we have our own “Agile à la Spotify” manifesto to create alignment and direction for our improvement work. This blog post describes the background for creating the document, what it is and how we are using it. http://labs.spotify.com/2013/03/20/agile-a-la-spotify/
Organizing a hack week at Spotify
I recently helped organize a hack week at Spotify. Here’s a blog post I wrote about it right before the hack week. I hope to follow up soon with a post about the actual hack week. http://labs.spotify.com/2013/02/15/organizing-a-hack-week/
One way of handling small tasks on a Kanban board
I often get the question how to handle small tasks on a Kanban board. Many teams I’ve talked to, especially maintenance and operations teams and teams not doing software development, have a hard time convincing themselves to actually write and track stickies for tasks that…