Blameless Post-Mortem Culture

To Nha Notes | Dec. 12, 2022, 11:24 p.m.

The key to learning from your mistakes is to document your failures by performing a root-cause analysis and writing up a “postmortem,” as it’s called at Google (and many other companies).

A good postmortem should include the following:

  • A brief summary of the event

  • A timeline of the event, from discovery through investigation to resolution

  • The primary cause of the event

  • Impact and damage assessment

  • A set of action items (with owners) to fix the problem immediately

  • A set of action items to prevent the event from happening again

  • Lessons learned