Over years I’ve seen many colleagues becoming Team Lead and getting lost in all the new tasks. In 2015 it happened to me and I became Team Lead for a development team of today 14+ people. End of 2016 we changed our company structure to cross-functional Squads and my position changed from Team Lead to Chapter Lead. I want to talk with you about what Squads, Chapters, Guilds in a cross-functional setup means, how failure Friday's help us to improve our work and how my daily business changed becoming Chapter Lead Backend. There is even time left for writing source code myself.

## Why should you accept this talk
This is a brand new session I’d love to prepare for your conference.

I would prepare this talk together with my bosses and our agile coaches in order to prepare the best possible talk regarding cross-functional and how we changed a lot of people’s minds. For example, we removed most meanings from the word TEAM and introduced a new Glossary. This massively reduced confusions between the colleagues and helped to understand the new concept much better. As well we introduce a failure culture which makes it easier for anyone to do mistakes and let others learn from it. Fail fast, fail often gives us the opportunity to do a lot of experiments and get the best out of it.