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Paper illustration for Responsibility Poker.
Facilitation
Responsibility Poker
Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
Operations
Causal Factor Analysis
Blameless Postmortem workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Blameless Postmortem
Purposedifferent
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.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
45-90 min2-6 h30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-103-103-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Responsibility Map, Role Agreements, Open QuestionsEvent Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective ActionsPostmortem Doc, Action Items, Timeline
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RolesResponsibilityTeamFacilitation
CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline
Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability
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Paper illustration for Incident Timeline Analysis.
DevOps
Incident Timeline Analysis
A structured reflection surfaces what was liked, learned, lacked, and longed for. It is a conversation format and does not validate actions automatically.
Agile
4Ls Retrospective
Paper illustration for Accountability Ladder
Operations
Accountability Ladder