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Criterion
Blameless Postmortem workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Blameless Postmortem
Paper illustration of MORT Analysis with its method-specific working model.
Operations
MORT Analysis
Paper illustration for CATWOE Analysis.
Systems Thinking
CATWOE Analysis
Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
Operations
Causal Factor 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 safety-relevant event or a system with high protection requirements, the method examines where controls failed. It exposes both technical and organizational gaps.CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way.For an event with a complicated course, the method breaks down the contributing factors along the timeline. It shows how conditions, decisions, and reactions together produce a course of events.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumHigh
Timedifferent
30-90 minMehrere Tage bis Wochen45-90 min2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
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Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Postmortem Doc, Action Items, TimelineMORT Worksheets, Findings per Branch, Corrective Actions, Systemic RecommendationsCATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, ConstraintsEvent Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions
Tagsno overlap
Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability
Root causeSafetySystemicIncident
Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders
CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline
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