A business-capability centric team is one whose work is aligned long-term to a certain area of the business. The team lives as long as the said business-capability is relevant to the business. This is in contrast to project teams that only last as long as it takes to deliver project scope. For example, an e-commerce business has capabilities such as buying and merchandising, catalog, marketing, or
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