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    This document summarizes Spotify's organizational structure. It discusses squads as primary work units that are self-organizing and cross-functional. Tribes are collections of related squads that work in the same area and sit together. Chapters are groups of people with similar specializations like design or testing. Guilds are communities of interest across the organization focused on sharing knowledge in areas like web technologies. The document provides examples to illustrate squads, tribes, and chapters.

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    This document summarizes Spotify's organizational structure. It discusses squads as primary work units that are self-organizing and cross-functional. Tribes are collections of related squads that work in the same area and sit together. Chapters are groups of people with similar specializations like design or testing. Guilds are communities of interest across the organization focused on sharing knowledge in areas like web technologies. The document provides examples to illustrate squads, tribes, and chapters.

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    This document summarizes Spotify's organizational structure. It discusses squads as primary work units that are self-organizing and cross-functional. Tribes are collections of related squads that work in the same area and sit together. Chapters are groups of people with similar specializations like design or testing. Guilds are communities of interest across the organization focused on sharing knowledge in areas like web technologies. The document provides examples to illustrate squads, tribes, and chapters.

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    Squads Chapters Guilds in One Page - Graffle

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    This document summarizes Spotify's organizational structure. It discusses squads as primary work units that are self-organizing and cross-functional. Tribes are collections of related squads that work in the same area and sit together. Chapters are groups of people with similar specializations like design or testing. Guilds are communities of interest across the organization focused on sharing knowledge in areas like web technologies. The document provides examples to illustrate squads, tribes, and chapters.

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    Squads, Chapters and Guilds

    SQUAD TRIBE “Incubators CHAPTER People who


    Primary home (like “Basically a Collection of squads Secondary home do similar
    for the mini
    a scrum team) mini startup” within business area (within tribe) work (design,
    startups” testing etc)
    Sit together. Squads within tribe Meet regularly to
    One long-term mission. sit in same area. discuss expertise
    Have all the skills/tools needed to <100 people per tribe. and challenges.
    design, develop, test & release to Shared lounges promote Chapter lead is line manager
    production. inter-squad contact. for Chapter members.
    Self-organising. Regular informal get-togethers to Chapter Lead is responsible for
    Lean, MVP, Validated Learning. share what working on, demos etc. developing people & setting salaries
    Become experts on product area. Tribe leader responsible for but remains part of squad & does
    Product Owner prioritises work. providing right habitat. day-to-day work.

    Example: The Fashion Squad Mission: Example: The Mobile tribe includes the Example: Within a tribe there will be design,
    Create an awesome experience that makes iPad, iPhone, Android and Touch squads. testing, development and other chapters.
    it easy & fast to find & buy fashion

    GUILD
    A group of people from a across the organisation who want to share knowledge, tools, code &
    practices. Each has a Guild Co-ordinator. Some examples are the web technology guild, the test Communities
    automation guild, and the agile coaching guild. of interest

    Problem-solving & support


    Quarterly Survey
    Talk about where improvements and support are needed Operations Team
    Gives squads the support they need to release
    Dependencies Reviews code themselves: in the form of infrastructure,
    Regularly review how squads see their dependencies. Reorganise work as scripts, and routines.
    necessary to eliminate inter-tribe and blocking dependencies.

    Scrum of Scrums Only On Demand


    For example, when a large project requires the co-ordinated work of multiple Each squad has access to Analytics expertise
    squads for a few months you may choose to have daily sync meetings. and an Agile Coach.

    This is a summary of Spotify’s whitepaper “Scaling Agile @Spotify” by Henrik Kniberg and Anders Ivarsson.
    Thanks for sharing and for the inspiration!

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