Answer by Tensibai for Adam Smith vs. fullstack developers - and productivity...
An important point to understand is that labour division doesn't always mean a different person per step. I'd take my own history in a car factory, I was on a seat assembly chain, to get a full seat...
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In short, I don't think Adam Smith was wrong, but I do think there are some serious differences between his model of labor division in manufacturing and silos in software development. First, the pin...
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IMHO the answer has a lot to do with scale and resource availability. I believe Adam Smith's theory can only be applied at large scale - entire nations/economies in the original context, or, in the SW...
View ArticleAnswer by Jiri Klouda for Adam Smith vs. fullstack developers - and...
There are two types of work: Exploitation - Well defined work that can be easily divided into well-defined stages, where each stage can be learned and mastered on its own and handover between stages...
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Adam Smith did not need to consider passing of information from one stage to another. This is a critical part of any significant IT project. So a fullstack developer has the significant advantages...
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I consider myself as a fullstack developer on the basis of the following combination of responsibilities: Front end and back end programming I can do UI changes until some extent: write html, css (as a...
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Adam Smith vs. fullstack developers - and productivity in DevOps?
By Adam Smith, labour division can make you by 240 times more effective (on example of a pin factory producing pins in 18 steps). Why then are multi-skilled roles are so in demand if this actually...
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