8. Autonomy means feeling
free to act, with all your
capabilities, to
contribute toward a
collective outcome.
Psychologically strong
9. Autonomy means feeling
free to act, with all your
capabilities, to
contribute toward a
collective outcome.Contributes to a sense of
capability and self-efficacy
Psychologically strong
10. Okay, I accept your
definition of autonomy.
How might I support it?
13. Alignment = Intent + rationale +
constraints
Intent: What
Rationale: Why
Constraints: Any restrictions on How
14. Alignment = Intent + rationale +
constraints
Intent: We need to cross the river
Rationale: There is more food on the other
side
Constraints: Please don’t kill any beavers
22. TPD leadership
Tribe TPD leads
Company Beliefs
North Star / 2 Year
Goals
Company Bets
Strategy Days
TPD Alignment
Taps
Other Tribe / Squad
sessions vary
32. Engineering Core Beliefs
‣ Speed of learning and execution lead us to create a best in
class product
‣ The fewer technologies we are world class on, the faster we get
‣ Shorter iterations yield faster learning, quicker value and higher
quality
‣ Small empowered cross-functional teams is the foundation of
fast paced product development and innovation
‣ Strong teams always beat rock stars
‣ Your ability to learn and adapt is more important than your
knowledge, merit and experience
33.
34. “Get off to a flying start with backend development by
following our step-by-step Golden Path tutorials:
they'll show you how to develop, build, provision, deploy,
test, and monitor a backend service in our production
environment. These tutorials are designed to get new
employees, boot camp squads – indeed anyone who is new
to backend development at Spotify – to get up to speed,
fast!”
35.
36. “The Chapter Lead is the line
manager for his or her chapter
members, with all the traditional
responsibilities such as
developing people, setting
salaries, etc”
41. Let’s say it’s a work in
progress
Zombie projects Looser than I’d like on
technical habits
Not a strong tradition of
technically-orientedcoaches
Experience skews
toward the young side
TPD / Business gap
Ability to absorb
rapid growth rate
53. Who was that guy?
‣ Jason Yip
‣ Agile Coach at Spotify since Feb 2015
‣ Previously Principal Consultant at
ThoughtWorks (started in February 2001)
‣ First encountered Extreme Programming in
1998
54. My question to the
audience:
What do you do to
enable autonomy?