13 Mattermost | Unblock Your Workflow Improved Tooling Will Help Unlock More Effective Teams We asked developers what one thing would improve software development productivity in 2022 , and many said that tooling improvements are key. In the next section, we’ll dig deeper into the most common productivity roadblocks that developer teams face — and how to bust through them in 2022. “ Give devs the tools to define and create their own infrastructure.” Infrastructure Engineer “ Reduce the use of disruptive messaging tools.” Professor of Software Management Practice “ Add some lightweight ways to share state/purpose among the team.” Principal Software Engineer “ Build common tooling practices across the team.” Senior Data Scientist