Spotify Rhythm – how we get aligned (slides from my talk at Agile Sverige)

Here are the slides from my talk about Spotify Rhythm at Agila Sverige.

The talk is about Spotify’s current approach to getting aligned as a company. It covers:

what problem we’re trying to solve, and how we’ve through two other models (OKR and Priorities & Achievements) before arriving at our current model
how we define “Bets” using the DIBB framework (Data-Insight-Belief-Bet)
how we prioritize bets using stack-ranking based on company beliefs and north star goals
how we visualize bets on a kanban-like company level board, and group them into Now – Next – Later columns
how different parts of the company visualize their own bets and align with higher level bets, using interlinked bet boards.
how we synchronize and prioritize our work using different cadences at different levels of the company.
how this model is used to support squad autonomy
our challenges and learnings with this so far

Holy crap how did I manage to cover all that in 10 minutes?! Guess I talked fast

Some sample slides below.