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by 3acctforcom 182 days ago
Ops vs Dev

Situational Leadership gets into this. You want a really efficient McDonalds worker who follows the established procedure to make a Big Mac. You also want a really creative designer to build your Big Mac marketing campaign. Your job as a manager is figuring out which you need, and fitting the right person into the right job.
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abustamam 182 days ago
Agreed. Meanwhile, many job postings out there looking for 10x full-stack developers who have deep experience in database, server, front end, devops, etc.

I think the concept of Full-stack dev is fine, but expecting them to know each part of the stack deeply isn't feasible imo.

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theshrike79 182 days ago
Expert Generalists are a thing: https://martinfowler.com/articles/expert-generalist.html

BUT they're completely wasted if you just use them to turn JIRA tickets into end to end features =)

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abustamam 182 days ago
Haha agreed. Thanks for the link, will give it a read. I feel like expert generalists should be founders or CTOS, and they are probably not applying for the positions that claim to be wanting expert generalists.
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