Blameless Postmortems: How to Actually Do Them
DevOpsDays Minneapolis 2019 · · Minneapolis, MN, USA

































































































So you’ve had an incident. Restoring service is just the first step; your team should also be prepared to learn from incidents and outages. In this workshop, you will learn some best practices around postmortems/incident reviews to help your team and organization see incidents as a learning opportunity and not just a disruption in service.
In this workshop, attendees will:
- Get an overview of blameless postmortems
- Learn techniques for effective information sharing
- Learn how to run a postmortem meeting effectively
- Understand the difference between “blame” and “accountability”
- Step through a real-world postmortem that occurred at a major SaaS organization
Resources
- PagerDuty Postmortem Documentation
- “Blameless” postmortems don’t work. Here’s what does.
- Blame. Language. Sharing.
- The infinite hows
- Crucial Accountability training
- How Complex Systems Fail
- Postmortem Action Items: Plan the Work and Work the Plan
- Three analytical traps in accident investigation
- Using Postmortems to Understand Service Reliability
- Inhumanity of Root Cause Analysis
- The problem with ‘5 whys’