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As Agile is becoming a more mainstream software development approach, I have seen recently on the Web more content about the importance of having cross-functional people in Scrum teams. Another denomination for this type of developer is to call them “T-shaped” people. The “T” symbolizes the deepness of the expertise in a particular topic and the broadness of knowledge in other areas of software engineering.
Large software development organizations have often chosen to have a tayloristic approach where people are separated according to their expertise: programmers, software testers, DBA, business analysts. ...
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