Cross-Functional Team - Explained
What is a Cross-Functional Team?
Written by J. Mance Gordon
Updated at April 22nd, 2024
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What is a Cross-Functional Team?
A Cross-Functional Team (CFT), Multidisciplinary Team or an Interdisciplinary Team, also known as is a group of people whose members hold different backgrounds, expertise, and functions working toward shared objectives.
Note that team members can also differ on many other dimensions (besides their discipline or function), such as age, gender, ethnicity, religion, culture, personality, beliefs and attitudes.
Typically cross-functional teams are temporary and assembled and dismantled according to a project needs.
The aim of this type of people clustering is to boost diversity, as it enhances creativity and social collaboration, and to make sure that the various departments of an organization have a say in a project.