Suggest an editImprove this articleRefine the answer for “What does the term "functional team" mean?”. Your changes go to moderation before they’re published.Approval requiredContentWhat you’re changing🇺🇸EN🇺🇦UAPreviewTitle (EN)Short answer (EN)**A functional team** is a group of specialists in one area, performing similar tasks within their professional expertise. **Key point:** each member is responsible for their own narrow part of the work, not for the whole product.Shown above the full answer for quick recall.Answer (EN)Image**A functional team** is a group of specialists **in one area**, performing similar tasks within their professional expertise. Each member is responsible for their own narrow part of the work, not for the whole product. --- ### Example - A frontend developer team that only builds the interface. - A QA team responsible only for quality checks. - An analyst team that deals exclusively with requirements. --- ### Characteristic features 1. **Narrow specialization** - members have deep knowledge in one area. 2. **Clear division of roles** - each person only does their own type of tasks. 3. **Dependency on other teams** - releasing the product requires interaction with designers, testers, DevOps, and so on. 4. **Focus on efficiency within the function**, rather than on the overall value of the product. --- ### Difference from a cross-functional team | Team type | Who is in it | Goal | |---|---|---| | **Functional** | specialists from one area | improving expertise and processes within the function | | **Cross-functional** | developers, testers, designers, and others | shipping a finished, working product | --- ### Conclusion **A functional team** is strong in depth of expertise, but weak in speed of delivering results. In Agile, **cross-functional teams** are more often created, combining different roles to deliver value faster and more autonomously.For the reviewerNote to the moderator (optional)Visible only to the moderator. Helps review go faster.