# Reflection: Naming the Problem You're About to Solve

## Reflection questions

1. Have you personally ever lost work, or been confused about which file version was current,
   in a way version control would have prevented?
2. What do you expect to feel DIFFERENT about how you work once you have real history and
   rollback available?

## Real Ops takeaway

**Every engineering practice this program builds toward — code review, CI/CD, GitOps,
infrastructure as code — assumes version control as its foundation.** You cannot meaningfully
automate deployment, review changes before they ship, or declare infrastructure as code without
first having a reliable, structured history of what changed and when. This module named the
problem; the rest of ROOT 03 gives you the tool.

This module is complete. Continue to the next module.

## Instructor Notes

**Discussion questions for a live classroom:** question 1 tends to produce genuine, motivating
stories — let students share before moving to Module 2's mental model.

**Approximate timing:** 5 minutes live discussion; 3 minutes self-paced writing.