Yuna<p>💡 Cross-Functional, Self-Organized Teams: Agile's Most Elegant Illusions</p><p>After years leading technical teams, mentoring, and watching "best practices" evolve faster than JavaScript frameworks, one thing is clear:<br>Cross-functional and self-organized teams exist for a noble reason: faster delivery, fewer dependencies, shared ownership.<br>In theory, it's beautiful.</p><p>In practice?<br>It's a high-cost simulation where everyone is supposed to do everything, while no one has time to do anything well.</p><p>You get:<br>🌀 Infinite alignment rituals to summon clarity<br>💥 Blurred roles, so everyone can blame everyone else<br>🧩 Designers meditating while waiting for requirements<br>🧠 Engineers writing test cases out of guilt, not strategy<br>📉 Accountability carefully diffused to avoid detection</p><p>Cross-functional becomes "multi-contextual cognitive overload".<br>Self-organization becomes "structureless entropy punctuated by mandatory retros". Everyone is supposed to drive everything, while no one is responsible and no one is guiding.</p><p>It’s not that the ideas are bad. It's that they're deployed as sacred buzzwords, unaccompanied by real leadership, constraints, or intent.<br>No clarity. No focus. Just a shared Google Doc and the illusion of progress.</p><p>✨ Great teams don't just self-organize. They are individually deliberately engineered.<br>✨ Cross-functional doesn't mean do everything. It means know what not to do.</p><p>Until then, enjoy your next story slicing workshop, and remember:<br>Autonomy without structure and guidance is just… a fire with no marshmallows.<br>And yes, I'm probably going to hell now for arguing against the Buzzword Bible.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Leadership</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AgileReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgileReality</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/TechTeams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechTeams</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CrossFunctional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrossFunctional</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SelfOrganized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfOrganized</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ProductDelivery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProductDelivery</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Agile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Agile</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coding</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>development</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a></p>