4 CHAPTER To Stay Competitive, Organizations Must Invest in Enabling Productive Team Collaboration These trends all point to a common, overarching imperative for developer team leaders: collaboration. From shipping faster and ensuring organizational security to retaining high-performing team members, organizations must empower their teams not just to perform well as individuals, but to collaborate more effectively. Open source is one essential approach to help software orga - nizations resolve the productivity challenges that their teams face. Open source tools are created by engineers solving problems for themselves — and sharing those solutions with the world. The best engineers aspire to be active in open source contributions and com - munities and they want to work for companies that embrace these ideals. Key Takeaway