Sep 11, 2019
A T-Shaped Developer is someone with a broad skill set, but perhaps one or two skills that run particularly deep. A specialist in an area, versus a proficient generalist. Companies run into the pitfall of stacking their teams with experts in an area they think the team will be working, and run into a major issue: A T-Shaped Team!
This week on The Standup Podcast we talk about the concept of T-Shaped teams, and how organizations can avoid forming their Agile or Scrum teams around this concept while focusing on the goal of cross functional teams.