[cweagans]

Do not specify this plan in such detail. If your role is management, you need to think in terms of objectives, clearly communicate those objectives, and allow the engineers space and autonomy to meet those objectives.

Try “we need to ship more frequently (with the end goal being CI/CD) because our releases cause problems all the time and it’s very expensive” or something along those lines. Ask the engineers on your team to determine an approach that works for them, run it by you (your job in this is to manage risk/timeline/cost, not get them to do it your specific way), and then do it.