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Criterion
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Game Day workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Game Day
Blameless Postmortem workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Blameless Postmortem
Purposedifferent
In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.In preparing for rare incidents, the method tests response capability under controlled conditions. It shows where assumptions about stability, roles, and recovery are too optimistic.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighMedium
Timedifferent
20–45 minHalber Tag30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
Small cross-functional group5-203-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption logSimulation Notes, Gaps List, Updated RunbooksPostmortem Doc, Action Items, Timeline
Tagsno overlap
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
ResilienceOperationsIncident
Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability
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Paper illustration for Failure Scenario Analysis.
Engineering
Failure Scenario Analysis
Incident Command workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Incident Command
Paper illustration for Learning Review.
Operations
Learning Review
Paper illustration of a review with planned work, actual event sequence, comparison, and assigned improvement actions.
Operations
After-Action Review