#1 is a real issue, but is actually a problem of management and company as a whole. Teams want to be silo-ed and not bothered by anyone else hence set their goals and just do them, engineering managers just care about their teams or don’t even communicate between them to check for cross team projects, and upper management never sets some actual objectives and roadmap which could have been mapped into cross team projects and goals. And goals become a religious quarter to quarter thing without allowing any deviation, and then everything is slow.