Talk by Cliff Hazell , Agile Coach at Spotify describing the secret sauce of Spotify succesful culture

1. How to copy
Spotify in 30 min*
Cliff Hazell
Coach at Spotify
Find me onTwitter: @ixhd

2. Perhaps?
Seen our “model”
Henrik’sVideos?
Conference Talks?

4. Allmodelsare
wrong…some
areuseful
(justasnapshot)
(lotsofvariety)

5. Somethingsweavoid
Whyweavoidthem
Whatwedoinstead

7. Culture is necessary
but not sufficient

8. What’s it like inside?

9. IT Shelf
- Project Lolipop
Lollipop

11. Pelle 1:1

13. The Story of a
Learning
Organization

14. “Be the best at
getting better”

15. Punishing Failure
Avoid

17. “Each organisation is
perfectly designed for the
results it’s achieving”

18. Build trust,
Celebrate Learning
Instead

19. Hero Worship
Avoid

20. “A system is not the
sum of it’s parts, but
the product of its
interactions”

21. Collaboration,
Team success
Encourage

23. Centralizing all
Information and
Decision
Avoid

24.
“Decentralising control requires
decentralising both authority to
make decisions and the information
to make them correctly”
Don Reinertsen

25. Leadership and
responsibility at all Levels
Encourage

27. Attend to Clarity*
* != detail

28. Establish Conditions

29. Appropriate
Constraints

30. “More companies die of
indigestion than
starvation”

31. CelebrateLearning
EncourageCollaboration
LeadershipatallLevels

32. “But… We’re special”

34. “People won’t do work if we don’t tell them!”
“Learning, Teaching, Mentoring and
Coaching is too expensive!”
“We don’t have time to change how we
work”

35. HowcanIgetbetter
atgettingbetter?

36. Tobuildtrust,gofirst
SmallSafetoFailexperiments
GototheGemba

37. CelebrateLearning
EncourageCollaboration
LeadershipatallLevels

38. Thank you
Cliff Hazell
Coach at Spotify
Find me onTwitter: @ixhd