Spotify was a broken model to begin with especially in Fidelity.
But What's the inside story on how they realized this agile model is not working in Tech. After spending millions over the years on all change.
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They are blaming the model instead of blaming the thousands of incompent and fraudulent developers from india they hired that make everything take twice as long and twice as worse.
@1g7 I worked in PI and this is spot on. I left with the last vbo but I loved being an SA. Was forced to take on a different role that I did ok with but didn't love. We had people coding that had no business doing so. We made it work and there were some benefits to the model. But in the end, the people in tech who were forced to agile roles and are not worried about getting laid off - I feel for ya
People said it from the very start. A ton of resistance, worked a bit in PI with public facing apps of course… but for everyone else? Every other business unit, it was a sneaky innovative way to quietly and slowly eliminate non-engineering roles in tech spaces.
There wasn’t much to spend in terms of the transition itself. Agile training was always required. Agile coaches have existed across the firm — traveling on salary or internal contract to transitioning teams (some quietly resisting could attribute to some waste).
Systems analysts became product owners without the title, just more secretary work. Then they were offered dual hat SM, but encouraged to embrace the scrum role fully with the new spotify model.
For all that chose the scrum master role during that transition, my hat(s) go off to you. Squad leads that didnt get a promotion, a lot of those who were never even systematically acknowledged as product owner/manager, you guys stuck it through too.
Keep your heads up! Two hats are heavy!!! And dont be afraid to put any of those titles on your resume.
Spotify stop doing the model years ago. Agile is still here (scrum, Kanban frameworks), just more mature than Spotify. I love agile, but of the over 40 frameworks, Spotify was my least favorite. We can group people together better to deliver better than Spotify
Probably too many roles requiring people to not really be doing anything of any value. Most are just scribes.