Agree. Having a seperate department can be helpful for large organizations, so that you can have one team supporting many products. However, if you prefer to hi

Agree. Having a seperate department can be helpful for large organizations, so that you can have one team supporting many products. However, if you prefer to hire generalists[1][2], then you can do away with it. Which is also a great away to mitigate Conway's Law[3] [1] http://jessicamah.com/the-ceos-job-part-2 http://jessicamah.com/the-ceos-job-part-2 [2] http://blog.eladgil.com/2010/12/5-myths-to-building-awesome-mobile-team.html http://blog.eladgil.com/2010/12/5-myths-to-building-awesome-... [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Law