I saw a team of misfits being assembled and "parked" this way on a project everyone expected to fail. To everyone's surprise they dragged the thing to completion and an unexpected revenue stream.
Are we talking about the colonization of Australia?
BTW I think that most misfits are such not because they're bad engineers, but because they're put in the wrong role with the wrong people. By sending them to a completely new project with completely new people under completely new rules, you give them "a second chance".
