It's a sound strategy as I expect "specialists" have a tendency to get caught up in minutia that aren't pertinent to the problem at hand. I would imagine that

It's a sound strategy as I expect "specialists" have a tendency to get caught up in minutia that aren't pertinent to the problem at hand. I would imagine that these "generalists" in software/development had some other "specialty" though; perhaps degrees in various sciences/engineerings, quant, linguistics, music, or really anything that demonstrates that the person is up to some analytic rigor and capable of following through on a difficult series of tasks.