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Criterion
Paper illustration for Incident Timeline Analysis.
DevOps
Incident Timeline Analysis
Paper illustration for Responsibility Poker.
Facilitation
Responsibility Poker
Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
Operations
Causal Factor Analysis
Purposedifferent
For an incident with an unclear sequence, the method makes the timeline precisely visible. It separates perception, reaction, and delay so cause and effect become more clearly readable.When it stays unclear who carries responsibility and who only contributes, Responsibility Poker makes the distribution of responsibility explicit. It sharpens the boundaries between weighing in, deciding, and bearing consequences.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
MediumLowHigh
Timedifferent
60-180 min45-90 min2-6 h
Participantssame
3-103-103-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Incident Timeline, Evidence Log, Delay Analysis, Improvement ActionsResponsibility Map, Role Agreements, Open QuestionsEvent Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions
Tagsno overlap
IncidentTimelineSite Reliability Engineering
RolesResponsibilityTeamFacilitation
CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline
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Paper illustration for Accountability Ladder
Operations
Accountability Ladder
Paper illustration of Barrier Analysis with its method-specific working model.
Operations
Barrier Analysis
Blameless Postmortem workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Blameless Postmortem