How Autonomy Saved One of Spotify’s Most Loved Features • Joakim Sunden • GOTO 2022
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2022. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph
Joakim Sundén - Consultant, Speaker, Coach, Teacher at Crisp
ORIGINAL TALK TITLE
How Autonomy Saved One of Spotify’s Most Loved Features From Being Killed
ABSTRACT
“I would have killed that if it was just me, 100%,” said Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek about Discover Weekly, a feature that would become one of Spotify’s most loved product features, almost a brand in itself.
Designers and senior engineers were equally skeptical, but the team was still able to ship the feature.
In this talk, you’ll learn how Spotify’s organizational culture of Agile management and autonomous teams enables innovation, using the Discover Weekly feature as an example. [...]
TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
02:39 Discover Weekly
06:29 Spotify HQ
07:24 Radio
08:08 Discover
10:46 Re-connecting the dots
14:42 Finding the successful product
15:40 PO/PM as collaborative leader & facilitator
17:19 Facilitating context
19:30 Focused on outcomes, not output
20:20 Activities, epics, features, stories
20:35 These bets have a low success rate
21:51 Moving from opinions to data
22:45 Aligned autonomy
24:47 “Traditional“ organizations
25:44 Aligned autonomy
27:17 Iterate, iterate, iterate
27:34 Continuous improvement
27:43 Experiments
32:08 Winning formula
33:16 Employee release
34:10 Daniel Ek
34:34 Celebrate failure
35:31 Limit blast radius
36:42 Watching the buzz
37:09 Conclusions
42:32 Innovation can’t be forced
42:46 Outro
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Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer • No Rules Rules •
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps •
Fred Brooks Jr. • The Mythical Man-Month •
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