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This month, Ksenia Svetlichnaya shares a perspective on cross-functional collaboration, alignment, and why teams get stuck, even when everyone cares and is working toward the same goal.

From the PM side, it’s about holding the map - keeping context, tracking change, and helping teams reorient when plans shift.

But collaboration breaks down long before plans fail.

In this piece, she explores:

• why alignment turns into defense

• what misalignment actually looks like in practice

• and how teams find their way back