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Think of an engineering team like a DnD group. You need a tank (wide), DPS (narrow), buff / debuff (QA), wizard (designer), and more. Going all wide or all nar
by notjustanymike 6y ago
Think of an engineering team like a DnD group. You need a tank (wide), DPS (narrow), buff / debuff (QA), wizard (designer), and more.
Going all wide or all narrow is a recipe for a team wipe.
- btown 6y agoUnless, to expand the metaphor to MMORPGs, you’re trying to solo (read: ramen startup) non-current content (read: disrupt an industry that has lagged in technical innovation, meaning you don’t need deep technical innovations but you do need broad agility). The “short fat engineer” is the early-career nothing-to-lose startup founder, and that’s a vital role that is arguably correctly valued by our industry in recent decades.