No Bad Teams, Only Bad Leaders

There was constant frustration in one engineering team. Slow builds. Failing pipelines. Broken deployments. Developers blocked for hours waiting for someone to “fix infrastructure”. A pretty classic situation: A DevOps engineer had introduced CI/CD, containerization and deployment pipelines — then left the company. The team had very little prior experience with these technologies, documentation was minimal, and delivery pressure was intense. Long days and overtime were normal. And at that point,