Tooling Teams to Enabling Teams or Part of the Platform A tooling team can easily turn into a siloed tool maintenance team over time if the initial mandate for the team is not specific enough or not time bounded. Besides the emotional attachment to the toolchain, team members’ technical skills can become outdated and their effort wasted in minor improvements led by inertia rather than by real needs. Tooling teams are typically better run either as enabling teams—with a short-lived and highly focused remit—or as part of the platform (with a clear, well-informed roadmap).
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