There is a known concept of T-shaped skills or T-shaped people – the ones who developed T-shaped skill sets. The earliest popular reference to those terms was made by David Guest back in 1991. The concept gained real popularity after Tim Brown (the CEO of IDEO Design Consultancy firm) endorsed this approach to CV assessment as a method to build interdisciplinary work teams for creative processes.
The term T-shaped skills is also broadly used in agile software development to emphasize the need for cross-skilled developers and testers in agile teams.
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