As soon as something becomes it's own team or department cooperation dies and a war ignites over attention and resources. My experience has been that the place

As soon as something becomes it's own team or department cooperation dies and a war ignites over attention and resources. My experience has been that the places that treated development roles as cross-functional have been the most efficient, with the least amount of politics and dysfunction. It removes a whole cadre of people who are barely able to describe the features they request, while minimising the space for power plays.