Years ago I saw a talk by someone leading the "innovation department" of a large national police organization in the EU. Her main point: the quickest way to kil

Years ago I saw a talk by someone leading the "innovation department" of a large national police organization in the EU. Her main point: the quickest way to kill innovation (or reliability, or performance, etc) is to make a special team that "owns" that area. This is because it signals to the rest of the teams that it is not their problem anymore, because "after all SRE is responsible for reliability". On the other side of the spectrum, the main problem with "Everyone owns X" type initiatives is that often nobody gets measured on X but they do get measured on their other responsibilities. The predictable result is that all those smart and driven people you hired will realize that spending time on X will not get them promoted but neglecting it does not cost anything.