In the development organization, pioneers are the ones who push the edge of the technology application envelope. They do not institutionalize. They do not like to create infrastructure. They don’t even like to document. They want to do great deeds, and when there are no more great deeds to be done, they want to move on. Their brilliance fuels the early market, and without them, there would be no such thing as high tech.
Moore’s notion of Pioneers is similar to what Robert X. Cringely’s calls Commandos in Accidental Empires.
