id: 1174,3
title: Tradeoffs in the Spotify Model.
date: 2021-07-21

Tradeoffs in the Spotify Model.

Accountability

Engineering managers aren’t involved to create accountability for project work. Product managers must escalate if persuasion isn’t working. Little opportunity for other teams or org to hold a team accountable.

Autonomy

Teams can move fast and influence what they want with little red tape, dependencies, accountability to others’ desires.

Leadership

Product manager represents all leadership/authority for the team with no “CTO”. Manages engineers and technical decisions and priorities and planning.

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