This is the paper that inspired Jeff Sutherland who cofounded SCRUM. The two Japanese authors described the properties of agile companies' skunk works. Notice

This is the paper that inspired Jeff Sutherland who cofounded SCRUM. The two Japanese authors described the properties of agile companies' skunk works. Notice, the paper was about green field, new development projects. 1. Built-in instability. "I believe creativity is born by pushing people against the wall and pressuring them almost to the extreme." 2. Self-organizing project teams (scrum team). "exhibits three conditions: autonomy, self-transcendence, and cross-fertilization." 3. Overlapping development phases (iterative sprints). "In the relay-like PPP system, the crucial problems tend to occur at the points where one group passes the project to the next. The rugby approach smooths out this problem by maintaining continuity across phases." 4. Multilearning 5. Subtle control 6. Organizational transfer of learning