ISTP is not a team-oriented type, therefore, when a team is itself ISTP, it is not unusual for the team to be misunderstood or underestimated.  Individually, ISTPs tend to view the process of getting others involved as a waste of time.  In general, ISTPs would rather be doing than talking or planning. They would rather be producing results than be bogged down in group processes.

ISTP teams are keenly observant, yet they speak little of what they observe in public. These reflective qualities, coupled with perceptions that are hands-on, tangible, grounded and very much oriented in the present, give the ISTP team an alert yet detached demeanor. Decisions are typically objective, impersonal, and analytically driven. The ISTP team's work with each other tends to be spontaneous, flexible and reactive, so that no matter what request, event or crisis comes along, the ISTP team will be inclined to direct attention to the new set of circumstances and address it—maybe as a team, or just as likely as a set of individuals-- with immediate action. 
