Facilitating Tooling Decisions Across Squads
Consensus workshops work when the facilitation is opinionated about process and neutral about vendors. We time-box discovery, force written trade-offs, and require a named owner before any tool is “approved.”
The artifact that matters is not the scorecard — it is the decision record that future hires can read without archaeology. Include what was rejected and why; that paragraph saves months of reopening debates.
Good tooling culture is less about golden paths and more about making deviations expensive to ignore and cheap to document.