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If there's a concise, non-militaristic name for a team with a specific, urgent, short-term objective holed up in a room together, I'd love to hear about it. "Strike team" and "war room" just work really well.

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a team with a specific, urgent, short-term objective holed up in a room together

They were not this. They were Walter Mitty fantasists. That’s what happens when people take the “business is war” mindset too seriously.

How about “the priority one support team” in “meeting room A”?

The fire brigade. If you call the team that then you will find that where they meet doesn't require a name, since it is just an abstract representation of the burning building.

The Reboot team?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5Qz3igEAlYw/maxresdefault.jpg

crysis team works really well (and is commonly used in german)

That's pretty good. I worry that admitting there's a "crisis" (even when there is) wouldn't go over too well with management, though.

Another true story, at a different job I was once on the “disaster recovery” team but that implied there might be a disaster so we became the “business continuity team” but that implied there might be an interruption so we were finally renamed “the major events team”.

well tactics has military connotations but also applies outside of the military so short term is the tactical team, and the long term is the strategy team.

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