TIME, TASK AND TERRITORY - the road to liberty at work

Last week I experienced a connection between the Tavistock idea of crucial boundaries of working: time, task, and territory http://akriceinstitute.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=34, and I saw a relationship between the Tavistock principles for group work, and the principles of agile software development, most celebrated today. In both cases the idea is that the freedom to work dynamically and situated, 'the journey is the destination', and what have we, depend on a clear and definitive time frame, explicit definition of goals to be achieved, and a limitid space to work within. In agile development such moments are called sprints. Working this way - this is my experience and new insight - gives so much piece of mind, that ideas and good spirit in collaboration seems to foster itself.