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Cross-functional team

Meaning in project management, with examples

/ˌkrɔːs ˈfʌŋkʃənəl ˌtiːm/nounCommon term

In project management, cross-functional team means: A team made up of people with different skills or from different departments, such as IT, finance, sales and operations, who work together on the same goal.

In Turkish: fonksiyonlar arası ekip, çapraz fonksiyonel ekip, disiplinler arası ekip

How it is used

Common in project and agile environments, where one team should have all the skills it needs to deliver. People build, lead or work in a cross-functional team. Leading one usually means managing people who do not report to you.

Example sentences

  1. The launch is run by a cross-functional team from marketing, IT, logistics and customer service.

  2. Leading a cross-functional team taught me how to get support without formal authority.

Common collocations

  • lead a cross-functional team
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • build a cross-functional team
  • resourceAnything a project needs to do its work, especially people, but also equipment, materials, money and time.
  • subject matter expertA person with deep knowledge of a particular area, such as tax law, a production line or an old IT system, whose advice the project needs.
  • RACI matrixA table that shows, for each task or decision, who is Responsible for doing it, who is Accountable for it, who must be Consulted and who must be kept Informed.
  • stakeholderAny person or group that is affected by a project or can influence it, such as the client, users, managers, suppliers or the project team itself.

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