Models and Frameworks

Exposing the reality of work at Spotify, as a failure/learning report intended for change agents to see the challenges and the opportunities for growth.

Let's put aside the 'bubblegum and unicorns' of the Spotify Engineering Culture videos and talk about what doesn't quite work at Spotify, and how we're trying to solve it. Joakim Sundén (who was an agile coach at Spotify headquarters from 2011 to 2017) presents a failure/learning report intended for coaches and other change agents who need encouragement that it's always hard AND it's always possible to improve.

The principles of Agile 2 - the self-proclaimed "Next Generation of Agile".

Find out why attempting to standardize a single method of Agile practice across your organization could be slowing everyone down.

Outlining a framework to handle the rapid pace of change by managing the Survive Channel and the Thrive Channel.

In the post-pandemic period, organizations are adapting to the new changes made during the pandemic. Such as leveraging social tools like zoom to interact with their teams and clients. However, how are the companies dealing with this major transition? Here, we learn the two-channel systems coded into humans that are usually in response during times of rapid change and uncertainty. The Survive Channel, which is activated by threats and leads to feelings of fear, anxiety, and stress; and the Thrive Channel, which is activated by opportunities and is associated with feelings of excitement, passion, and joy.

Understanding how cultural management impacts agile approaches in an organization.

Does managerial culture influence agile approaches? Johanna Rothman, a managerial consultant, summarizes a Twitter thread about perspective and non-perspective agile approaches in this article to explain how managers (and the culture they uphold) impact agile transformations in an organization. Organizations live by either Theory X or the Theory Y of management, however, irrespective of the method used, most agile transformations fail! WHY? Johanna adds that for any agile approach to work, managerial culture has to change first.