Being T-shaped

Great outcomes happen when you have committed people on projects. Magic happens when these people are cross-functional.

One of the key principles of Agile is to have cross-functional teams: engineers who often ask ‘why’, architects who’re wannabe business consultants, scrum masters who’re half psychologists, and business analysts who understand architecture.

That’s the nature of people we’re constantly looking for at Srijan. A flair for writing is an added benefit.

Who we’re not looking for is scrum masters who’re process managers, engineers who code to instruction, business analysts who’re mere story-writers. If this is how the software industry has made you out to be, well, don’t be disheartened, make time to invest in yourself.

As the brilliant writer, Shama Futehally, once said:

Learn to live and you shall learn to write