I’m playing some blog catchup right now, but there’s another entry of Brian Marrick’s I want to comment on: Technology-facing Product Critiques . In it he explores the need for specialists even in an Agile project. I’m not certain I can completely agree.
I submit myself as a counter-example to his argument. I’m a developer, and Agile-minded. I’m interested in security, UI design, and even testing (why I started reading his blog in the first place :-) I guess that makes me a jack of all trades and a master of none. While I may not feel qualified to be the sole person in charge of security, UI design or testing on a project, I do think that with a group of developers that are as much of a generalist as I am, we could collectively get the job done.
I suppose pragmatically there’s the question of how many projects have a group of generalists this broad. Maybe I’m just a singular oddity. I’ve been accused of that before.
writebacks...
trackback
TrackBack ping me at:
http://gigavolt.net/blog.trackback
comment...