When You May Not Need a Testing Center of Excellence

✅ It would be unwise to try centralization across several product teams if even one of the team members relies on institutional knowledge as their methodology. This is also true if, rather than relying on abstract functional models, a team’s processes rely on named individuals.

Similarly, it would help if you didn’t move product groups into a Testing Center of Excellence without first seeing that the essential tools are standardized, like test case repositories and defect databases.