How Teams Lose Control Over Releases (Without Noticing It)

If you’re building a software product, your deployment process matters from day one. It’s not a “later” problem or just DevOps work in the background. It directly impacts how stable your product is, how fast you recover from issues, and how confident your team feels when shipping changes. Most teams know this. But in practice, their release process looks very different. Instead of a clear system, they end up with a patchwork of CI jobs — a deploy step here, a Slack alert there, a quick workaroun