Tiger Teams are a concept I heard of from OscarDeJongh Tiger stands for The Initial Group of Expert Resources. The TigerTeam is expected to be formed prior to every project and I think is self-selected, or at least democratically selected. The point of a tiger team is to make sure that all of the groups that a project may touch on get a heads up for the project and get a chance to give input to its direction so that no groups are caught off guard down the road.