Cross-Functional Teams: Getting Engineering, Product, and Design on the Same Page
11 questions to ask your team before starting a project
First thing’s first, what’s a cross-functional product team?
Cross-functional product teams pull from the larger engineering, product, and design (EPD) teams and typically consist of one product designer, one product manager, and one or more engineers combining their superpowers toward building a either a specific or a set of product features. These multidisciplinary teams must work together to effectively assemble their skills in a way that enables them to build awesome products that satisfy both business and user goals.
So, what’s the value of aligning your cross-functional product team?
This group of engineers, product managers, and designers have come together from their larger teams to accomplish a goal toward the greater good, which necessitates a fair amount of autonomy within the team to trust that they’re working toward improving both the larger product and the organization. Making the space to have a conversation about the business value, user goals, and technical considerations of the problem helps to increase confidence overall that everyone is…
