Ivar Jacobson (IJI) and Joakim Sundén are delighted to announce a partnership to describe the Spotify Model to help people better understand what it is, and using Essence as an enabler, evolve the industries understanding of how it can be of value.
The collaboration to “Essentialize” (render using the Essence Kernel and Language) this thinking will help people better understand, communicate, and adopt the Spotify Model Essentials. The result of the collaboration will be added to the ever-growing Essentialized practice eco-system, however the basic Spotify element cards can be downloaded here. The article: ‘The “Spotify Model” Demystified and Made Applicable through Essence’ is a great read if you want to know a little more. Essence brings a paradigm shift to the world of software and the potential for its adopters to reap huge benefits in productivity and performance. Essence enables a number of key use cases to help both organizations and teams make a step-change in their development capability. Ivar’s recent LinkedIn article “Essence, the Standard Common Ground, in a Nutshell” brings these use cases to life.
Collaborating with IJI and working with the Essence language to crystallize the core principles of the Spotify model has been really valuable” said Joakim Sundén, (Crisp AB Partner). “This synergy aims to demystify the model’s application, enhancing its accessibility and user-friendliness. Leveraging the robust foundation of the Essence Kernel and Language, we’re primed to weave these principles and practices with invaluable insights from industry leaders. Given the growing traction of Essence across both hands-on applications and academia, it underscores the immense potential of the Essence ecosystem as a platform for disseminating knowledge in such domains.
I am delighted to see the thinking around the Spotify model codified into an Essence based practice so it can be added to the rapidly expanding eco-system of practices available.”, said Ivar Jacobson, CEO and Founder of Ivar Jacobson International. “Essence helps teams and organizations use the practices that are right for them, it is an enabler first and foremost. So to see the popular Spotify thinking join the list of practices that teams can mix and match with others is extremely exciting. It is great to have Joakim, with all his practical experience from his Spotify days involved with the initiative. I can’t wait to see the practice in use more and more.
More information about the Essence partner network can be found on the IJI Essence Partner page.
About Ivar Jacobson: Dr. Ivar Jacobson received his Ph.D. in computer science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, was rewarded the Gustaf Dalén medal from Chalmers University in 2003 and got an honorary doctor at San Martin de Porres University, Peru, in 2009. His contributions in software engineering span over 50 years starting from components and component architecture in 1968 to the essentials of modern software engineering (Essence) in 2019. In between he created Use Cases and what became the Unified Process in 1986 and he was the co-creator of UML in 1997.
Ivar is the principal author of eight books and co-author of another three.
For more information on Ivar, visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Jacobson.
About Joakim Sundén: Joakim is a partner and consultant with Crisp, a small Swedish consultancy with world-renowned Agile experts who help develop sustainable organizations. From 2011 to 2017 he worked as an Agile Coach at Spotify where he was part of a group of people working together with the CTO to develop a new approach to Agile at scale, aka “The Spotify Model” with Tribes, Squads, Chapters and Guilds. He now helps leaders develop empowered teams and organizations where all employees can be engaged in creating innovative solutions.
Joakim is frequently speaking and teaching on topics such as Agile at Scale, Spotify, Empowered Product Teams and Organizations, Agile & Product Leadership and Strategy (e.g., OKRs). Joakim is the co-author of Kanban In Action (Manning, 2014).
For more information on Joakim, visit https://joakimsunden.com/.
Collaborating with Essence to crystallize the core principles of the Spotify model has been immensely valuable. This synergy aims to demystify the model's application, enhancing its accessibility and user-friendliness. Leveraging the robust foundation of the Essence Kernel and Language, we're primed to weave these principles and practices with invaluable insights from industry leaders. Given the growing traction of Essence across both hands-on applications and academia, it underscores the immense potential of the Essence ecosystem as a platform for disseminating knowledge in such domains.
I worked with Ivar Jacobson International to leverage the Essence Industry standard to capture the essential elements. I use the cards in many of my Scrum training courses today and they prove to be very popular with both students and training partners. The cards add exercises and interactive games to enhance the learning experience.
If you want to accelerate your Scrum adoption and understanding, you can get your own Essential Scrum Cards and bring the Scrum Guide to life
I am delighted to collaborate with Ivar Jacobson to Essentialize these key practices which are a primary focus of our training and consulting, said Ken Pugh, CEO of Ken Pugh Inc. The Essence standard with the poker-sizer card paradigm is an excellent medium that helps companies apply serious gameplay to develop software effectively using these practices. At Ken Pugh Inc. we are all about helping teams deliver business value quickly by removing waste and delays in value streams. So we support anything that helps accelerate the learning cycle and bridges the gap between learning and delivery.
I’m really excited to see how IJI’s tooling and Essentialization of the Flow System will help provide a different lens that teams can use to understand and apply its practices. Where the TFS Playbook provides education combined with practical advice and worksheets for the methods, techniques, and tools in The Flow System, the Essence approach activates them through gameplaying and adds an intuitive way to engage with them. I think that Ivar Jacobson’s Essence truly complements the approach Prof. John Turner and I take with the Flow System, and we’re excited to work together with IJI on this collaboration!
I am extremely excited about working together to Essentialize some of the practices in the Agile Data and Agile Modelling methods to help make them available to a wider audience, make them more trainable, and make them more implementable. At Ambysoft, we are all about developing and providing Effective Practices for Software Solution Delivery. The Essence Kernel and Language provide the perfect “industry standard” foundation upon which to render those assets so that they can combine seamlessly with contributions from other leaders in our industry to accelerate and professionalize the endeavor of software solution delivery. With the ecosystem that we’re seeing around Essence, with everything from the practitioner to training/teaching and academic points of view, teaching this to the students, is absolutely critical, and I think Essence is there and has a huge advantage over pretty much everything else.