After the introduction of Agile at Spotify, there was a surge of interest from the IT community to understand what their model was, and how it could help others.
After the introduction of Agile at Spotify, there was a surge of interest from the IT community to understand what their model was, and how it could help others.
While Agile advocate to be flexible and dynamic, I think many people were curious to know whether this new model could help them to adopt agile faster and better.
I suppose the short answer is: it depends.
Probably we should first point out that the Spotify approach is an experiment that could work pretty well for Spotify, but not necessarily for other teams, since the copy-paste approach usually don't cope well with 'being agile' vs 'doing agile'.
In fact Agile advocate for Individual interactions over processes and tools, and any Agile framework, including the Spotify approach is no exception to this value.
So because each Team is different, we need to work with the people, and inspect and adapt about what works well for them, and what doesn't. There is no shortcut to this, no framework will save us if we don't make a genuine effort to put people first.
We know it, people are busy and they often want a pill to quickly resolve their problems.
But the pill, will not save us. At best it could manage the symptoms, but the underlying cause of our disorder will stay there, and probably will get worse with time.
Have a look at World Health Organization's website and look at the lethal threats the synthetic antibiotics have created in just few decades.
Though there are many interesting innovations in the Spotify model, I think it should be used for what it is: an experiment, and not an Agile framework designed to be generic enough that almost everyone could adopt it.
Eventually the success of any framework we use, depends on the maturity of the people involved, and I think every framework and every agile approach, should be tested on the field, if we really want to improve our agile ways of working.
https://vitalitychicago.com/blog/there-is-no-spotify-model-for-scaling-agile/
