I've had some thoughts around this issue more recently after moving from DevOps -> Software Engineering. I love the idea of cross functional teams, but from wh

I've had some thoughts around this issue more recently after moving from DevOps -> Software Engineering. I love the idea of cross functional teams, but from what I have seen of the most recent implementation of it that I'm working in, there are as always, issues of definition around what a cross functional team actually is and should be. IMO grabbing a bunch of backend SEs and making them handle their own DevOps is a joke of Academy Awards host level proportions. The shit I see as an ex DevOps dude is horrific. The notion that a bunch of people who've never done the role can somehow figure it out without specific training doesn't work, from my experience. A cross functional team should actually be cross functional, where you have an engineer, whose specialty is the work you intend for them to complete within that team. Otherwise we're just being overburdened with extra shit that we frankly will never get the time to actually complete in a meaningful way, and it just generates more and more technical debt.