Your organization needs to invest in teams that are: Cross-functional. The people on the team collectively have all the expertise needed for the team to fulfill its purpose. Fully dedicated. Specialists can come help from time to time, but core team members are solely dedicated to their team. Collaborative. Team members have friendly, collegial relationships and work closely together. Long-lived. It can take months for team members to figure out how to work most effectively together, so keep teams together for as long as possible.
