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Running a post-incident review

Meeting after an incident to agree what happened, why, and what will stop it happening again.

Good work shows: Builds a timeline of events; finds causes without blame; records actions with owners.

Running a post-incident review is one of the software and IT skills on FinderK.

The job simulations and Skill Paths below include work that is checked for this skill. You do the work in an original fictional company and get feedback on it.

Job simulations

Review the checkout outage

Site reliability engineer at Pantry Lane

About 75 minutes. Included in Plus.

Customers could not pay for about an hour and a half on a busy Saturday. Rebuild the timeline and impact from the logs, write a blameless review that fixes conditions rather than people, book the review and brief customer care without promising what you cannot keep.

Skills: Reconstruct an incident timeline from logs and records; Measure customer impact and error budget use; Write a blameless review that names conditions, not people; Turn contributing factors into owned actions; Brief non-engineers honestly about an incident

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