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Blameless Postmortem workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Blameless Postmortem
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Paper illustration for Ideal Days.
Agile
Ideal Days
Purposedifferent
After an incident with damage or a near miss, the method creates a sober field for learning without assigning blame. It directs attention to the course of events, conditions, and effective countermeasures.When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes.When effort needs to be thought of as real working time, it offers a simple common denominator for comparison. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, and Capacity Caveats.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
30-90 min30-90 min15-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-123-122-9
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Postmortem Doc, Action Items, TimelineAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsIdeal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity Caveats
Tagsno overlap
Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
EstimationEffortAgile
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Paper illustration for Dot Estimation.
Facilitation
Dot Estimation
Incident Command workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Incident Command