From Rafe Colburn’s post on Seven signs of dysfunctional engineering teams:

Preference for process over tools. As engineering teams grow, there are many approaches to coordinating people’s work. Most of them are some combination of process and tools. Git is a tool that enables multiple people to work on the same code base efficiently (most of the time). A team may also design a process around Git — avoiding the use of remote branches, only pushing code that’s ready to deploy to the master branch, or requiring people to use local branches for all of their development. Healthy teams generally try to address their scaling problems with tools, not additional process. Processes are hard to turn into habits, hard to teach to new team members, and often evolve too slowly to keep pace with changing circumstances.

You can think of it another way, tools encode behavior in a way that takes away choices. Which is great, because then you don’t have to worry about making the wrong choice. Then you can focus your mental energies on real problems.