How about I pick team with 3 ops persons I know, and all of them are better programmers than some of the professional developers I had to work with? And they also can do marketing and sales! ;) How come this approach can sound insane, but the 'full devs on' can't? I pick 2 devs 1 ops every single time, because, you know, OPS PEOPLE CAN CODE TOO as well 'good enough' as devs can do ops good enough and with 2 devs in team we've already developer skills covered. All I'm asking for is some sane approach instead of 'devs can do everything well enough'.