149. How To Build a Brand New Team

Picture it: Your company’s landed on an important and shiny new project and it needs a team to bring it to life. Cue the barrage of big questions—questions like: “So…who’s on this team? What support will they receive? When will they meet? Wait, is this extra work or something different?”Welcome to the wonderful world of cross-functional teaming. Standing up a cross-functional team is a place where plenty of organizations stumble—because it’s asking most systems to play a game they aren’t designed to play well. In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans team up (see what we did there?) to answer questions like: How should cross-functional teams—as well as the projects they work on—be chartered? Should the size and scope of an idea impact how a team is designed? What level and kind of authority should cross-functional teams be given? What are the first moves cross-functional teams always need to make? How can we bake experimentation into this cake? Our book is available now at bravenewwork.com We want to hear from you. Send your thoughts and feedback to [email protected] Looking for some help with your own transformation? Visit theready.com