Reducing surface area in engineering and keeping software simple keeps your team agile. Most engineers know that there are hundreds of great tools out there, and most are extremely specialized. However, you still see engineers returning to a common few that they feel comfortable using. For many tasks, the familiar is easier to work with, and when the jobs are small, the benefits of a special tool are limited. This type of thinking also applies to software development organizations. To make a development team better, from increasing performance to team alignment, the following topics will be considered and discussed: familiarity with the techniques; capacity for adopting new techniques; limit of what the team can manage; and platform agility.