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Quotes About Cross-functional

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
~ Carlos Ghosn
There were three differences in year three: • Teams were involved in creating new technologies, processes, and systems. • Cross-functional teams were formed around new great ideas. • Customers were involved from the inception of each feature concept.
~ Eric Ries
Whenever possible, the innovation team should be cross-functional and have a clear team leader, like the Toyota shusa. It should be empowered to build, market, and deploy products or features in the sandbox without prior approval. It should be required to report on the success or failure of those efforts by using standard actionable metrics and innovation accounting.
~ Eric Ries
The way out of this dilemma is to manage the four kinds of work differently, allowing strong cross-functional teams to develop around each area. When products move from phase to phase, they are handed off between teams. Employees can choose to move with the product as part of the handoff or stay behind and begin work on something new. Neither choice is necessarily right or wrong; it depends on the temperament and skills of the person in question.
~ Eric Ries
This analysis leads me to conclude that DevSecOps should not be defined as a team consisting of development, operations and security roles. In fact, I believe that DevSecOps is a term that describes a cross-functional DevOps team that integrates security practices within their own processes to deliver secure software and infrastructure. To put it another way, DevSecOps is DevOps done securely. In the words of Eliza-May Austin, 'DevSecOps teams simply don't exist.
~ Glenn Wilson
Focus on Companywide Issues. During strategy discussions, focus on issues spanning multiple business units. Example:
~ Harvard Business School Press
Amazingly, the transformations are not primarily based on automation. Instead, the incredible improvements come from modifying policies around the system of work and the policies that control work in process, ensuring that there are effective cross-functional teams, subordinating everything to the constraint, and managing handoffs well.
~ Gene Kim
Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
~ Carlos Ghosn
Figure 4: Illustration of the T-shaped
~ James Turner
What an individual does day to day on the job now must stretch across functional boundaries. Designers analyze. Analysts design. Marketers create. Creators market.
~ Daniel H. Pink
When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers.
~ Steve Jobs