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Specializing Generalist

Tyner Blain  Feb 01 12

The ideal agile team is made up of specializing generalists – but what does that really mean?  The goal isn’t to prevent functional silos of expertise, it is to allow people to cover for each other. Great Conversation Elena Yatzeck (@eyatzeck) posted a comment on an earlier article about agile maturity models. In terms of [...] Full story...



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