How Autonomy Saved One of Spotify’s Most Loved Features • Joakim Sunden • GOTO 2023
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Aarhus 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOaar
Joakim Sundén - Consultant, Speaker, Coach, Teacher at Crisp @joakimsunden-crisp
ORIGINAL TALK TITLE
How Autonomy Saved One of Spotify’s Most Loved Features From Being Killed
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ABSTRACT
“I would have killed that if it was just me, 100%,” said Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek about Discover Weekly, a feature that would become one of Spotify’s most loved product features, almost a brand in itself.
Designers and senior engineers were equally skeptical, but the team was still able to ship the feature.
In this talk, you’ll learn how Spotify’s organizational culture of Agile management and autonomous teams enables innovation, using the Discover Weekly feature as an example. [...]
TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
00:50 Discover Weekly
05:31 Spotify HQ
06:31 Radio
07:12 Discover
09:20 Re-connecting the dots
11:34 “Traditional“ organizations
13:47 Autonomous squad
15:27 4 Risks in product development
17:50 Focused on outcomes, not output
18:41 Activities, epics, features, stories
18:57 These bets have a low success rate
20:09 Moving from opinions to data
20:38 Alignment – Autonomy
22:04 Aligned autonomy
25:33 Gatekeeping vs facilitating context
28:27 Iterate, iterate, iterate
28:43 Experiments
32:17 Winning formula
33:52 Employee release
34:44 Daniel Ek
35:07 Celebrate failure
35:52 Limit blast radius
36:27 Watching the data
36:57 Watching the buzz
37:21 Conclusions
42:25 Innovation can’t be forced
42:38 Outro
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