Cross-functional teams often struggle with resource management and effective communication. This article gives insight into communication-focused solutions for this complex problem.
At Journey Foods, we solve food science and supply chain inefficiencies with software in order to help companies feed 8 billion people. Given the complexity of the data and efficacy needed to deliver optimal customer success, I decided to pair dev teams with one food scientist, one backend developer, and one data engineer. Other teams consisted of a food scientist and a frontend engineer for customer success and design output.
We had asynchronous meetings to streamline this merging of departments, but that’s not to suggest that synchronous meetings are worthless.
