I can't think of a way to concisely convey my response without being crass, so here it is: The author of this piece is an idiot who has drunk the Kool aid and

I can't think of a way to concisely convey my response without being crass, so here it is: The author of this piece is an idiot who has drunk the Kool aid and has very clearly never performed away team work. I have personally wasted a year of my time on away team work, have supported several away teams, and most importantly: operated systems/built on top of stuff built by away teams. All of this at Amazon, specifically. Having personally experienced every engineering facet of away teams, I feel as qualified as anyone to say this: away teams are a stupid concept that hurts everyone except management. You spend way more time to deliver a product you don't really understand and will have a hard time spinning on promos, which will almost certainly be a nightmare to maintain and operate, all because your employer is too cheap to allocate headcount for surprises and your team took a dependency on another team years ago so they have you by the balls.