The Incident Postmortem Skeleton

Draft a blameless incident postmortem

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Turn these raw incident notes into a blameless postmortem: [PASTE TIMELINE, ALERTS, CHAT EXCERPTS, WHAT BROKE]. Structure it as: what happened in two sentences a customer would understand, timeline with timestamps, root cause stated as a system failure not a person failure, what we got lucky on, what made it worse, and action items each with an owner and a deadline. Flag any action item that is just 'be more careful' and rewrite it as a concrete change.

Inputs needed

  • Incident timeline, alerts, chat excerpts, impact

What good output looks like

Root cause is systemic; every action item has an owner, a deadline, and is a change not a sentiment

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