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Blameless Postmortem workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Blameless Postmortem
Paper illustration of Family Tree Analysis with its method-specific working model.
Operations
Family Tree Analysis
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.For a series of incidents with a similar pattern, the method arranges individual events as branches of a common origin. It makes visible which conditions keep recurring.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-122-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Postmortem Doc, Action Items, TimelineFamily Tree Diagram, Pattern Notes, Systemic Measures
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Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability
Root causePatternsIncidentSystemic
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Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
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