Boss Level Podcast

Simon Marcus and his swedish overlords at Spotify

Episode Summary

An interview with Spotify's VP of Operations, Simon Marcus. We discuss the concept of a minimum viable company, how Scrum and Kanban are a gateway drug and who should do the thinking in organizations. Regarding Spotify we cover the hierarchy in the company and how the chapters, tribes and squads model is essentially just a matrix with fancy names.

Episode Notes

An interview with Spotify's VP of Operations, Simon Marcus. We discuss the concept of a minimum viable company, how Scrum and Kanban are a gateway drug and who should do the thinking in organizations. Regarding Spotify we cover the hierarchy in the company and how the chapters, tribes and squads model is essentially just a matrix with fancy names.

Links to the podcast:

• Website
• iTunes
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Host: Sami Honkonen

Links to stuff mentioned in the episode:

• Person: Simon Marcus
• Company: Spotify
• Person: Marc Maron
• Framework: Scrum
• Framework: Kanban
• Videos that cover chapters, tribes and squads: Spotify Engineering Culture - part 1, part 2
• Person: Daniel Ek (Spotify CEO)
• Person: Henrik Kniberg
• Person: Will Evans
• Person: Jabe Bloom
• Book: Henrik Kniberg: Lean from the Trenches
• Person: Arne Roock
• Company: Jimdo
• Person: Håkan Forss
• Person: Chris Argyris
• Company: Crisp
• Crisp DNA
• Book: Peter Thiel: Zero To One
• Book: Jack Welch: Winning
• Book: Stephen Bungay: The Art of Action
• Book: Pascal Dennis: Getting the Right Things Done

Related blog post from Sami's blog:

• How to fix 90% of problems at work

Thanks to:

• Timo Londen
• Jari Aarniala
• Ville Valtonen
• Tyyppimuunnos
• Mervi Honkonen