Cross-functional Team Leadership Best Practices
I've worked with cross-functional teams throughout my experience as a PM, and I've learned a thing or two about leading cross-functional teams. And now, dear reader, you can benefit from my mistakes experience. Here are some best practices I've collected, in no particular order: 1. Cast a Wide Net Whether you're forming the team or inheriting it, it's important to make sure you have the right people on your team. Consider the work to be done. Do you have the right person to do that work (or oversee the work being done)? Regularly confirm with each of your team members that they're the right person to be included on the team--no one knows better than they do. Create an org chart of team members, and map it to your work breakdown structure to make sure you're not missing any matches. 2. Have a Clearly Defined Scope and Desired Outcomes OK, so this one is kind of obvious, but it's worth mentioning because when you get stuck in the weeds with your project o