Architecture & practice·Teams, ownership and Conway's law
two specialists sat with your team for six weeks, taught you the testing approach, and then left.
Enabling team
A team that temporarily works alongside another to raise its capability, then deliberately withdraws. The withdrawal is the defining feature: an enabling team that stays becomes either a dependency or a shadow platform team. It is the structural answer to a skill gap that would otherwise be solved by permanently routing all work of one kind through the same three people.