Cross Functional Quotes

“Most squads are cross-functional, consisting of engineers and marketers, collaborating as a single team with a shared understanding of customer value.”
― Nicole Forsgren, Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

“Understanding your manager’s place in the political food chain is the trickiest because you’re often not in the meetings where he is interacting with his superiors. Those are the situations where you understand what their view is of him and, therefore his organization. The next best gauge of your manager’s political clout is cross-functional meetings where his peers are present.”
― Michael Lopp, Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager