Post-Mortem Framework

Principles

• Blameless: focus on systems/processes, not individuals. People make reasonable decisions given available info.
• Evidence-based: every finding backed by logs, metrics, or documented actions
• Action-oriented: every finding produces concrete, assigned action item
• Learning-focused: capture what worked alongside what failed

Post-Mortem Document Structure

# Post-Mortem: [Incident Title]

**Date**: [incident date]
**Duration**: [start to resolution]
**Severity**: [P0-P3]
**Author**: [analyst]