How do you manage multiple cross-functional teams working together?

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The key to cross-functional teams working together is having an open ended
communication. This would help in fostering any kind of issues the team is
facing. Also having a Sprint board, with every feature ticket with the team
assignee, would give a better picture of how the work in progress is and who is
the concerned team member to check on for a particular feature change or ticket.
There are lot of times when there are situations when a team is dependent on
another team, to proceed with the work. At this point, as a technical program
manager can check for the long term goal of the project and see what could fit
in the time line for alternative tasks that the Engineering team could pick up
and make sure they are good to advance. Also determining the dependencies and
checking how that can be reduced / eliminated  could help to get work done
synchronously. Very simple example being, the UI team depended on the B.E
developers for apis  to have proper data retrievals to display in f.E and  show
up  some graphs based on search criteria, would have suitable amount of work to
be done from B.e and F.E. In this case we would foster both teams to have
effective communication, so that B.e team can give a fair idea of the api
signatures and the response formats, so that UI can have an idea on how they can
expect the data from B.E and proceed further with design changes

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