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How I learned Scrum and the “Spotify Model” don’t match

How I learned Scrum and the “Spotify Model” don’t match

Autonomy vs Product focus

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Willem-Jan Ageling
Nov 28, 2021
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Autonomy vs Product Focus

In 2017, our company adopted the Spotify Model. Or rather, we created our own model “heavily inspired by” Henrik Kniberg’s Spotify engineering culture videos.

We were so heavily inspired that we only differed from “Spotify” in details. The most important detail was that every team would work with Scrum. Scrum was well-known by mo…

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