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Cross-functional team

Meaning in product management, with examples

nounCore term

In product management, cross-functional team means: A team made up of people with different skills, such as product, design, engineering and data, who work together toward the same product goal.

In Turkish: fonksiyonlar arası ekip, çapraz fonksiyonlu ekip, çok disiplinli ekip

How it is used

The standard setup in modern product companies, sometimes called a squad or pod. The PM guides the team on what and why, the engineering lead on how. Working cross-functionally reduces handovers and waiting between departments.

Example sentences

  1. Each cross-functional team owns one part of the customer journey, from sign-up to payment.

  2. Our cross-functional team has a PM, a designer, five engineers and a data analyst.

Common collocations

  • work cross-functionally
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • lead a cross-functional team
  • cross-functional squad
  • product managerThe person who decides what a product should do and why, by understanding users and the business, and who guides the team that builds it.
  • stakeholderAny person or group inside or outside the company who is affected by a product decision or can influence it, such as executives, sales, support or legal.
  • alignmentA state in which people or teams agree on goals, priorities and decisions, so they work in the same direction instead of against each other.
  • customer journeyAll the steps and experiences a customer goes through with a product or company, from first hearing about it to buying, using, getting help and perhaps leaving.

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