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| Criterion |  DevOps Blameless Postmortem |  Operations Root Cause Analysis |  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. | When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 1-4 h | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-8 | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Postmortem Doc, Action Items, Timeline | Problem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan | Family Tree Diagram, Pattern Notes, Systemic Measures |
Tags1 shared | Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability | Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident | Root causePatternsIncidentSystemic |
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