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Free post-mortem template for incident reviews.
. Covers timeline, root cause analysis, impact assessment, and corrective actions. Blameless framework for engineering teams.
Every incident is an opportunity to improve. This blameless post-mortem template guides your team through root cause analysis, impact assessment, and concrete action items that prevent recurrence.
Provide a concise overview of what happened for anyone who needs context.
Pro tip: Write the summary as if explaining to a new team member. Clear, factual, no jargon. If the CEO reads it, they should understand the impact.
Reconstruct the chronological sequence of events from detection to resolution.
Pro tip: Use UTC timestamps for consistency. Check Slack messages, deployment logs, and monitoring dashboards to reconstruct the exact timeline.
Dig into why this happened — not just what happened, but the deeper systemic causes.
Pro tip: Use the '5 Whys' technique to get past symptoms to the root cause. The real root cause is almost never 'someone made a mistake' — it is the system that allowed the mistake to have impact.
Quantify the damage to understand the true cost of the incident.
Pro tip: Be honest about impact. Underreporting builds a false sense of security. Accurate impact data drives appropriate investment in prevention.
Recognize what worked during the incident response to reinforce good practices.
Pro tip: Celebrating what went well is just as important as identifying what went wrong. It reinforces the behaviors you want to see in future incidents.
Identify failures in process, tooling, and communication without blaming individuals.
Pro tip: This is a blameless review. Focus on systems and processes, not individuals. The question is 'how did the system allow this?' not 'who caused this?'
Define concrete, assignable actions to prevent recurrence.
Pro tip: Every action item needs an owner and a deadline. Unowned action items never get done. Limit to 5-7 items — if you have 20, none will be completed.
Distill the key takeaways that should inform future decisions.
Pro tip: Share lessons broadly. The most valuable post-mortems are the ones that prevent incidents in other teams who read them.
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A post-mortem analysis is a structured review conducted after a project, incident, or event to identify what went well, what went wrong, root causes of failures, and actionable improvements. It focuses on systemic issues rather than individual blame to prevent recurrence.
Effective post-mortems follow a blameless format: establish a timeline of events, gather data and metrics, identify root causes using the 5 Whys technique, document lessons learned, assign specific action items with owners and deadlines, and schedule a follow-up to verify implementation.
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