[afhammad]

On the tools: I have gone the route of using the libraries (e.g Kaffy for Phoenix, ActiveAdmin for Rails) and later building a central shared backoffice from scratch that any team can contribute to. In the former you are always wasting time fighting the library to get what you want, in the latter it has the advantage of being language/framework agnostic but it's too costly for smaller teams.

More recently i've used tools such as Retool (there are many alternatives), it has been ideal and allows for non engineers to build there own tools with a little bit of SQL knowledge.