Cross-Team Alignment and Dependency Map
Map team goals to company priorities, expose uncommitted cross-team dependencies and metric conflicts, and force the tradeoff calls.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
That's a common challenge as companies scale. Misalignment between teams often happens when goals aren't clearly connected. You might start by articulating your company strategy clearly. Then each team could develop goals that support it. Creating a communication plan to share strategy would help. Regular check-ins and reviews can ensure ongoing alignment. You could use a framework like OKRs to connect goals. Have you documented your company strategy formally?
STRATEGY CASCADE ANALYSIS ALIGNMENT AUDIT Company goal: Grow revenue 100% to 40M Sales goal: Close 50 new enterprise customers Product goal: Launch 8 new features Engineering goal: Reduce technical debt by 30% Design goal: Redesign 6 user flows MISALIGNMENT IDENTIFIED Silo 1: Sales vs Product Sales target: enterprise customers (high NRR, 18-month deployment) Product prioritized: SMB features (fast adoption, churn risk) Conflict: conflicting customer personas, roadmap misalignment Fix: Unified go-to-market by segment with shared metrics Silo 2: Product vs Engineering Product goal: launch 8 features Engineering goal: reduce tech debt 30% Conflict: debt paydown consumes 40% capacity, leaving only 5 features feasible Fix: Allocate capacity: 60% features, 40% debt, measure velocity impact Orphan goal: Design's 6 flow redesigns have no revenue connection Fix: Map each to feature roadmap or retention KPI COMMUNICATION GAP ANALYSIS Strategy documented: yes, but only in finance deck Teams access: 30% have read latest version Understanding depth: 2/5 teams can articulate the why Fix: Monthly all-hands breakdown + quarterly strategy review REALIGNMENT PROTOCOL Month 1: Cascade company goal to team level Month 2: Map team goals to company metrics Month 3: Weekly syncs between product, sales, engineering on shared metrics Success metric: 80% of team goals linked to company goal by day 45 Document delivered with realignment roadmap.
About this skill
Teams can all be green while the company misses. This skill finds where plans stop connecting: orphan goals, dependencies nobody agreed to, and metrics that reward one team for hurting another.
What it does
- Builds an alignment matrix from team goals to company priorities
- Maps cross-team dependencies and whether the providing team committed
- Names metric, capacity, and sequencing conflicts with a decider for each
- Produces a cascade with one accountable owner per priority
- Sets a light dependency review cadence instead of another status meeting
What you get
An alignment map: matrix, dependency table with risk, conflicts and decisions needed, cascade, and orphan goals.
Best for
COOs, chiefs of staff, and planning leads before quarterly planning or when cross-team work keeps stalling.
SKILL.md preview
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name: strategic-alignment
description: Find and fix misalignment across teams - map every team's goals to the company priorities, surface cross-team dependencies nobody committed to, expose conflicting priorities and metrics that pull teams against each other, and produce a cascade with explicit tradeoff calls and dependency commitments. Use when the user says "our teams are pulling in different directions", "OKRs don't ladder up", "map dependencies across teams for next quarter", "sales and product want opposite things", "everyone is green but we're missing the number", "alignment check before planning", or casually "why does nothing cross-team ever get done?".
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