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I am a good directly responsible individual in an emergency, and I do well against a reasonable deadline. That does not mean I want to live there. Manual toil is shoveling fertilizer: someone has to do it sometimes, it should rotate, and once it passes half the job you stop building. The way out is to build the machine that does the shoveling, and the hardest pile is the one that arrives from another team's pipeline.
Building a product and running it are two different kinds of work. Development ends when the thing exists; production never ends, and what it teaches has to flow back into the product as its own stream of work. Treating the two as one job hides the second one, and the accounting split between cost of goods sold and operating expenses turns out to describe the same line.
Engineering quality is a property of what ships. Quality engineering is the practice that produces it, and that practice cannot be handed to another team. Quality, security, and documentation belong to the engineer who builds the thing, and the reward system has to pay for those behaviors or they quietly stop.
Choosing a name is the first step in taking your team's destiny into your own hands. It is the first thing that creates a sense of belonging, and it is often ignored even though it is such a multiplier. Belonging cannot be dictated. It has to be adopted. It has to be organic.