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X-Team Principle 3
Flexible Phases
THE PROPRINT TEAM at a large West Coast computer company was launched with much fanfare. Charged with developing a revolutionary new printer, the team began work with top managers who expressed their hope that the team could take the company in a new direction. ProPrint set out to work with ample financial and personnel resources and six months to “play in the sandbox,” experimenting with different technologies and product designs. The work was divided up so that different team members worked on separate aspects of the new design and got input from different parts of the organization and outside world. The team members had a great deal of information about the market potential, the applications for this ...
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