Originally published on TechSaaS Cloud Originally published on TechSaaS Cloud Platform Team Staffing Models: Dedicated vs Embedded vs Hybrid You hired 6 platform engineers. Four of them are doing ticket work — resetting credentials, debugging CI pipelines, and answering Slack questions about why the staging environment is down again. This isn't a people problem. It's a staffing model problem. The way you organize your platform team determines whether they build leverage or become an expensive help desk. The Three Models Model 1: Dedicated (Centralized) Platform Team The entire platform team sits together, owns a shared roadmap, and builds platform capabilities as internal products.…