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Is the idea of an tech "generalist" dead?

Michael Whitis on July 08, 2019

I'm a 20+ year veteran of the tech industry. 18 of those years have been at a large fortune 500 company. I've always considered myself a generali...
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Alex Fedorov

I don’t think Agile/DevOps mindset could result in fewer generalists and more specialist roles, to be honest.

Broken “Agile/DevOps” just might.

The most efficient teams I’ve ever seen are full of generalists where each person has a unique skill that is stronger than it is in others. But people never shy of work not in their area of expertise. In fact, these teams used what I call true Agile/DevOps—extreme programming.