And what it actually takes to make the transition real.
Sound Familiar?
A leadership meeting. A slide deck. A reorg announcement.
The DevOps team is now called the Platform Engineering team. The job descriptions get updated. The Confluence pages get renamed. A few engineers get "Platform Engineer" on their LinkedIn profiles.
Six months later, nothing has meaningfully changed. Deployments still take the same amount of time. Application teams still raise tickets for environment provisioning. The team is still reactive, still firefighting, still measured on uptime rather than developer productivity.
