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This post is going around, and it& #39;s a good analysis. I came to a lot of these same conclusions about why so many tech startups were such a mess internally. https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/failed-squad-goals/">https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/fai...
There is one potentially controversial statement I& #39;ll throw in here though. In my own analysis, it& #39;s not the model itself that has inherent problems. A lot of the issues stem from ineffectual leadership and management.
If there& #39;s one thing we keep learning over and over, it& #39;s that there is no One True Way. A lot of different structures and processes can work. And even the best structures and processes can suck if they& #39;re executed poorly.
Full disclosure, I was at a company called Yammer, and I believe we also heavily influenced this style of engineering org structure. Spotify just did a better job putting catchy marketing around it.
I came up as a manager under a similar org of cross functional teams that shifted and reformed over time. There are a lot of things I still like about it. But it always had these problems, and we just never focused on finding ways to solve or mitigate them.
