Full Stack Teams, Not Engineers

More and more, job postings are seeking the elusive full-stack engineer. But this person is more myth than reality.

Instead of hunting and waiting on the perfect full-stack engineer, a more sustainable paradigm would be for organizations to create full-stack teams. This balanced team is filled with people possessing a core set of skills plus different specialties.

This paper shows organizations there is an alternative to the full-stack engineer, and provides guidance on how to create a full-stack team.

What's inside

  • Myth Buster — This paper busts the myth of the full-stack developer or full-stack engineer.
  • Expert Authors — This paper is written by experienced practitioners who have led their own successful DevOps transformations within large enterprise organizations.
  • Sustainable Teams — This paper advocates for the use of full-stack teams instead of full-stack engineers, creating a more sustainable and attainable solution for enterprises and employees.
  • All Business Leaders — This paper is written for business leaders in all industries, regardless of if they work in the technology sector.
Publication Date
2019
Pages
30
Topics
Leadership · Software Delivery & Architecture · Workplace Culture
Formats
epub · pdf
License
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

About the authors

4 authors
Christian Posta

VP, Global Field CTO @ Solo.io | Author "Istio in Action"

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Cornelia DavisTechnology Fellow, Spectro Cloud

Cornelia Davis is a software technologist with more than thirty years experience who drives technical strategy, product development and go to market, and helps customers leverage said technology to further their business goals. Cornelia prefers to spend half her time directly engaged with customers, deeply understanding their needs and finding solutions to their problems. The other half of the time she spends distilling what she learns through these engagements and using that to drive product evolution as well as industry advancement through evangelism—conferences and writing. Her personal mantra is “free your mind.” She is also the author of Cloud Native: Designing Change- Tolerant Software . And she still cuts code, even if only a bit of the time.

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Dominica DegrandisIndependent Trainer, Coach & Speaker

Dominica DeGrandis is the foremost expert in Kanban Flow within the IT industry today. Her work has shown working IT teams how effectively improve workflow and optimize throughput to produce the best result throughout the value stream. Her passion involves the use of visual cues and transparency across teams and organizations to reveal mutually critical information. As Director of Training & Coaching at LeanKit, Dominica combines experience, practice and theory to help teams level up their capability. She blogs at ddegrandis.com and tweets at @dominicad.

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Thomas LimoncelliSRE Manager, Stack Overflow

Thomas Limoncelli is an internationally recognized author, speaker, system administrator, and DevOps advocate. He manages the SRE teams at Stack Overflow, Inc., and previously worked at Google, Bell Labs/Lucent, AT&T, and others. His books include Time Management for System Administrators (O’Reilly), The Practice of System and Network Administration (3rd edition), and The Practice of Cloud System Administration. In 2005, he received the USENIX SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award.

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