What is a BLT?

The BLT XING Barcelona Leadership Team

What is a BLT? Not this…

What is a BLT? But this!

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Organic and sustainable growtth As the size and number of our teams increase, gradually we added new team leads

Our Guiding Principle Product = Team Team = Leader

The Mars Expedition Our values and how we found them

Our values Innovation Commitment Teamwork

Empathy Pro-active

"Great idea of trusting the developers to pick their team! Giving employees this freedom and responsibility will lead to higher motivated employees. “

How the BLT manifests our values Innovation: The Barcelona Job Fair

How the BLT manifests our values Empathy: Pair-coaching and Non-violent communication

How the BLT manifests our values Commitment/Pro-active/Teamwork: The BLT Daily Stand-up and our backlog

Our Working Agreements Decider Ask for help

Check-in/Checkout Feedback early and often

But wait… there’s more We are still learning and evolving and trying to figure things out

Scaling and Programme Management Bringing the teams together

Next experiment: Team leads in teams In search of craftmanship