SRE Postmortums: Blameless Postmortem Culture Creation
SRE
| Intermediate
- 22 videos | 1h 11m 33s
- Includes Assessment
- Earns a Badge
There are various, frequently-used premortem and postmortem techniques adopted by site reliability engineers (SRE) to diagnose issues and come up with problem resolution ideas and alternative approaches. To do this effectively, SREs need to account for several factors at play, including the workplace culture and work collaboration. In this course, you'll learn how to promote a blameless culture - one without finger-pointing and animated language. You'll explore the key characteristics of good and bad postmortems, and discover the benefits of reviewing postmortems, sharing knowledge, giving feedback, and rewarding positive behavior. You'll then learn how to respond to postmortem culture implementation failure. Lastly, you'll discover how using the right postmortem templates and postmortem management tools can improve how you write postmortems and manage their associated data.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
-
Discover the key concepts covered in this course
Outline a premortem approach and describe its benefits
Recognize how to do a premortem on a project and the best practices to follow
Outline the concept of postmortem and postmortem culture
List the goals of writing a postmortem, such as documenting the incident, root causes, and preventative actions
Describe the idea of blameless postmortems
Outline how to achieve a blameless postmortem
List benefits of a blameless postmortem culture shift
Identify best practices for implementing a thriving postmortem culture
Recognize the value of collaboration and knowledge-sharing throughout the postmortem workflow
Describe why it is important to review postmortems -
List activities that could help introduce a new postmortem culture such as 'postmortem of the month,' 'postmortem groups,' 'clubs,' etc.
Identify how asking for feedback can increase postmortem effectiveness
List some examples of bad postmortems and potential areas for improvement, such as missing context, omitted details, missing action items, finger-pointing, and animated language
Outline a healthy postmortem, including clarity, concrete action items, blamelessness, depth, promptness, and conciseness
List the benefits of enforcing blameless behavior such as using blameless language
Give reasons why it is essential to reward postmortem outcomes
Outline why it is beneficial to share postmortems as widely as possible
Describe how to respond to postmortem culture failures
List the benefits of using a postmortem template
Identify how tools can help facilitate postmortem culture
Summarize the key concepts covered in this course
IN THIS COURSE
-
1m 42s
-
3m 34s
-
3. Project Premortem Execution3m 29s
-
4. Postmortem Culture4m 40s
-
5. Postmortem Writing Objectives2m 27s
-
6. Blameless Postmortems2m 22s
-
7. Blameless Postmortem Implementation1m 50s
-
8. Blameless Postmortem Benefits1m 48s
-
9. Blameless Culture Best Practices4m 46s
-
10. Importance of Collaboration1m 14s
-
11. Postmortem Reviews2m 38s
-
12. Steps in Establishing a New Postmortem Culture6m 19sIn this video, you'll learn more about postmortems and how to create a culture that's conducive to learning. You'll discover that postmortems are designed to help teams and the entire organization improve at getting their jobs done. You'll learn that a key word to keep in mind when planning postmortems is continuous. Postmortems must be continuously cultivated so they can become an integral part of your process. You'll learn this means having people take the meeting seriously and being engaged. FREE ACCESS
-
13. Benefits of Feedback2m 55s
-
14. Bad Postmortem7m 41s
-
15. Good Postmortem5m 21s
-
16. Ways to Enforce Blameless Behavior1m 25sIn this video, you'll learn more about writing a postmortem. Postmortems that include blameful language ultimately lead to stifling of collaboration between teams and team members. You'll watch a demo about this during which you'll learn about the benefits of enforcing blameless behavior such as using blameless language. FREE ACCESS
-
17. Postmortem Rewards4m 2sIn this video, you'll learn more about postmortems. Postmortems are important and carry tremendous benefits to individuals, the team, and the company as a whole. You'll learn how to recognize the importance of rewarding postmortem outcomes. Teams want to be recognized for a job well done. FREE ACCESS
-
18. Benefits to Sharing Postmortems1m 46s
-
19. Postmortem Culture Failure Responses3m
-
20. Postmortem Templates2m 23sIn this video, you'll learn about the benefits of using a postmortem template. You'll discover how to list these. You'll also learn that every team should do the same so that every report from every team looks and feels the same. This is done by having a postmortem template. FREE ACCESS
-
21. Postmortem Management Tools4m 47sIn this video, you'll learn more about how to create an effective postmortem about a specific problem. You'll learn that to do this, you'll need to provide supporting data. You'll discover there are several ways to do this, depending on the situation you encountered. For example, you'll need to collect data. Sometimes you know the specific feed is having a problem, but you don't know what it is yet. FREE ACCESS
-
22. Course Summary1m 25sIn this video, you'll summarize what you've learned in the course. In this course, you've examined the impact a healthy postmortem culture can have on a project, including the characteristics and benefits associated with creating good postmortems and blameless postmortems. You learned about premortem approaches and best practices for performing a premortem. FREE ACCESS
EARN A DIGITAL BADGE WHEN YOU COMPLETE THIS COURSE
Skillsoft is providing you the opportunity to earn a digital badge upon successful completion on some of our courses, which can be shared on any social network or business platform.
Digital badges are yours to keep, forever.
