From the course: Working on a Cross-Functional Team
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From the course: Working on a Cross-Functional Team
Promote a learning atmosphere
- Working on cross-functional teams can help the team communicate and set shared commitments. Once the team sets their direction, they still have to go through the difficult process of delivering their product. Each team member needs to understand the whole product, only then can they have a shared commitment to deliver that product. That shared commitment means that a team member in human resources or marketing needs to have some general knowledge about software development. It also means that software developers need to know a little bit more about marketing and human resources. That requires a lot of learning. It's not just learning about your product. Sometimes you need to know about an entire functional area. I once worked for a cross-functional team that was developing a school student management system. The student management system needed to be flexible enough to deal with different types of school curricula.…
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