From the course: DevOps Foundations: Effective Postmortems
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Retrospectives and near misses
From the course: DevOps Foundations: Effective Postmortems
Retrospectives and near misses
- [Instructor] Hopefully postmortems aren't the only form of retrospective activity you perform. As your organization becomes better at engineering reliability into your systems, then hopefully the number of incidents you're getting goes down. And then you get to ignore all this and not do postmortems anymore, right? So then how do you keep learning when you haven't had a major incident in a while? If you use an agile methodology, you probably have regular retrospectives on some cadence like a sprint retrospective. Even if you don't, you may do a retrospective at the end of a project or code release or even just an annual retrospective. If you don't, time to start. Regular retrospectives help create what the third way of devops calls a culture of continuous experimentation and learning. Smaller, more frequent retrospectives are more effective at continuously improving your organization. These retrospectives are designed…
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