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I don't want the details

466 points · 226 comments · mooreds

  1. insanetake · · focus · HN ↗
    Every post-mortem I've done had:

    1. timeline of events

    2. impact

    3. 5 whys — the details of how and why things happend

    4. actionable items

    I've never seen a post-mortem without actionable items.

    1. Pxtl · · focus · HN ↗
      Actionable items go onto the backlog. The backlog grows from the top.

      As a stopgap, a manual pre-flight check is added. The number of manual pre-flight checks becomes a ridiculous overhead but it gives a clear person to blame when something goes wrong.

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