Define: "Skunkworks" in Business
Catastrophic fiscal burn
"Never join the skunkworks. When the money dries up the entire team gets laid off."
A small group loosely assembled to work on an advanced or secret project unconstrained by normal bureaucratic procedures.
What does "Skunkworks" actually mean?
"A playground for favorite employees to burn venture capital without producing any viable code."
"Our innovation team operates as a skunkworks to prototype new tools quickly."
"They pulled the top devs into a skunkworks project that hasn't delivered a single feature in a year."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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