eXtreme Manufacturing

[1] In 1986, Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka wrote an HBR article on Scrum, entitled "New New Product Development Game,"[2][subscription] a treatment considered seminal.

[3] This work challenged the business community to adopt a more holistic approach toward achieving goals; now Scrum is considered a best practice in project management.

mark, while achieving "road-legal safety specifications"[7][subscription]—Joe Justice and team Wikispeed, composed of 44 members from 4 countries, used XM to achieve what Fortune magazine called the "seemingly impossible:" application of tools formerly largely devoted to software manufacturing, to the development of a functional automotive prototype in three months time.

[9][10] The success—finishing 10th in the mainstream class, and "outrunning more than one hundred other cars from well-funded companies and universities around the world"— led to an invitation to team Wikispeed to showcase their prototype at the Detroit auto show.

[7] Companies use XM as a way to challenge their employees to develop new skills and learn the power of teamwork to solve complex problems.

[11] Another such example is opensourceecology.org,[12][13] whose Global Village Construction Set is developing and building affordable industrial machines, and publishing the designs on-line for free.