The ”Spotify model”: leboncoin’s experience & feedback
Experiences in implementing the squad-based model when growing from 100 to 250 employees.
May 15, 2020
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Summary
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Leboncoin Julien Jouhault shares his company's own experience implementing Spotify's framework and how they finally got it to work for them. He confirms that they implemented the model all the while growing from 100 to over 250 engineers, 35 squads, and 4 tribes. Their approach was under a matrix-based management model that they later coupled with their own Travail d'Organization Ouvert model (TOO) and services architecture, and DevOps principles creating an organization that identifies problems on its own and solves them with the support of management.
Takeaways
- Leboncoin is a fast-growing company that made its technological transformation in 2017 leveraging the Spotify framework but under a matrix-based management model that was also coupled with the company's own Travail d'Organization Ouvert model (TOO).
- No one organization is perfect, no single model is a perfect fit. It is necessary to adapt to the context, internal and external the market, and the competition, and always regularly revisit the model.
- The Spotify framework can work as Leboncoin has proved by coupling it with their TOO model, DevOps principles, and their own services architecture.
- The matrix model designates a manager gathering under him collaborators with the same set of skills and thus making it possible to maintain technical coherence in the technological stacks while the squad model allows the teams to focus on their deliverability.
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