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.
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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
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