These days, most of my org consulting work comes from failed adoptions of so-called “Spotify Model”. It seems it takes 5 to 7 years for a management fad to rise and fall unless it solves underlying organizational problems and changes the negative dynamics. Most fads don’t.
SAFe has been falling already for quite some time. Yet it has a slight different trend of a very long tail. That is due to the high investments in trainings and licenses companies were told they needed to purchase to “become agile”. But it is failing nevertheless, and it will generate enough work for most of us for the next 10 years to dismantle those constructs.
Team Topologies is on the rise. But I don’t think it will have a long tail on decline. It will fail drastically. Why I think so? Unlike Spotify and SAFe, TT doesn’t really change much - it just gives fancy names to existing teams and justifies whatever there is.
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