Simon Marcus and his swedish overlords at Spotify

Boss Level Podcast

English - September 28, 2015 03:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MB - ★★★★ - 6 ratings
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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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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

Simon Marcus and his swedish overlords at Spotify

Boss Level Podcast

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