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Chad Kunde

Use “we” instead of “you”

Unquestionably, the blame/responsibility is always the team and that's a good start.

The other part I try to foster, on top of this, is an ownership share in the system. Celebrate the first PR as their own, the first delivered feature, first code in production, first bug discovered/hunted, etc.

It's not a big celebration, but at least talk about it. Maybe buy them lunch and congratulate them on the milestone, if you're in the same location.

The backstop, though, is exactly what you mentioned. No one person breaks a system and no one person is to blame. The team deals with bugs and downtime together.