The importance of creating Π-shaped profiles

Before starting to structure your hiring, incubation, and mobility tactics, you need to define what DevOps profiles and professions you wish to create as an organization. Your focus should not just be on the engineering roles, but also on architects, process governance, and regulatory governance profiles – basically, the ones that directly and indirectly will have a stake in the DevOps 360° operating model. Are you going for a certain number of generalists and a certain number of specialists?

When defining the DevOps profiles and professions, there are some important questions that you need to answer collectively. Do you want your people to be able to get the big DevOps picture, while also being able to deep-dive into certain areas? Is full stack engineering the way to go? Or might that create DevOps Swiss army knives with a lack of deep expertise and people knowing everything and nothing at the same time? And if you...