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A group of people who, in order to achieve unusual results, work on a project in a way that is outside the usual rules. Often a small team that assumes or is given responsibility for developing something in a short time with minimal management constraints in order to reduce communications overhead. Sometimes used to spearhead a solution that thereafter will be implemented according to the usual process.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...   ~ William Gibson, Neuromancer, 1984