Among the other many reasons it's known around the world, Spotify became hugely popular in the Teal community after releasing a two-part video series on their unique way of structuring their engineering team.
It focused on autonomy, trust, and speed.
The Corporate Rebels also wrote an article detailing each key piece of the structure.
While it's always best for organizations to think about their own needs and preferences when deciding how to organize, seeing how other companies do things can inspire us and give a good starting point.
So, in case you wanted to try designing your organization similar to how Spotify's engineering culture was, we will show you how to set this up in Holaspirit.
To get started, we first need to understand the basic components of their structure. Rather than roles and circles, which you would see in Holacracy, Spotify's engineering department structured with the following pieces:
Despite the seemingly complex nature of how Spotify structured itself, it's relatively easy to replicate in Holaspirit. Just follow these steps:
That's all there is to it! It will take a lot of time upfront to completely restructure things to match this format, but should be made significantly easier by first adjusting your organization's role templates so that each circle create has only the core roles you desire and that you can easily add additional roles far more easily (such as the line manager for each chapter).