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How Engineering Leaders Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration

It’s about enabling communication vertically through hierarchies and horizontally across even non-technical departments, including legal, marketing, accounting, and customer support. We could add security to that mix, but it’s clear that, even if your teams aren’t cross-functional, security has to be integral to all development.

We can almost provide them a cheat sheet of, this is the sales culture, this is the marketing or product culture, and how you might be able to use that understanding, not to subvert the system, not to get what we want and make sure that they don’t get what they want,” said Walters, whose role finds him working with revenue, go-to-market and product teams as well as engineering. It’s not Us versus Them, but to at least accelerate the amount of time that you get to that common ground, towards whatever that common goal is.”

If the goal is to have more users, Taylor continued, they need to make sure legal is onboard early.