One of the primary goals of DevOps and platform engineering is to create efficient paved paths that alleviate the cognitive burden on developers and operations teams. This session will delve into the challenges and triumphs of establishing a robust database development and deployment process utilized by over 150 individuals across 12 diverse development and operations teams in a prominent banking institution.

This session will provide information on how to:
- Develop strategies to understand and address the diverse needs of different roles in the deployment process.
- Implement an iterative feedback loop to improve the deployment process continuously based on real-world experiences.
- Recognize when to set boundaries and say "no" to ensure a focused and efficient deployment process.
- Effectively communicate the benefits of the deployment process to gain support from all teams, including potential skeptics.
- Learn from past mistakes in onboarding new teams and adopt best practices for a smoother implementation.

The target audience for this session is any platform or devops engineer responsible for building processes or paved paths for their organization. The database deployments are a framing device. There is no specific technology requirements, and anyone with 1+ years of experience should benefit.

This talk is a modified version of a talk given at Redgate's SQL In the City Summit, PASS 2022, and DeliveryConf 2020.