Off-the-shelf operating models such as the Spotify Squad Model, SVPG Service Model, and SAFe were widely — and often uncritically — adopted by companies looking for a ready-made way to organize product work. The best companies treat any such model as a starting point rather than a rigid implementation: they adopt what fits, then stay intentional and adaptive rather than cargo-culting the model wholesale.
Cutler names three specific off-the-shelf product/agile operating models companies imported wholesale during the push to 'become a product organization': the Spotify Way, the SVPG model (Silicon Valley Product Group), and SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework, punned against the Safeway grocery chain). In each case the fallout Cutler points to is the same: companies copied the model's form without staying intentional about which parts were and weren't actually working for their own context.
Из тем: The Product Operating Model