Some engineers chose to form grouplets, ad hoc teams of like-minded engineers who wanted to pool their 20% time, allowing them to do focused improvement blitzes. A testing grouplet was formed by Bharat Mediratta and Nick Lesiecki, with the mission of driving the adoption of automated testing across Google. Even though they had no budget or formal authority, as Mike Bland described, “There were no explicit constraints put upon us, either. And we took advantage of that.”
