Walk me through facilitating the post-incident review after a severe outage. How do you keep it blameless but not toothless?

Facilitation is mechanics: timeline before theories, blame converted into system questions, actions with owners tracked to closure. Include the defensive engineer and the exec who wants a head.

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Facilitation is mechanics: timeline before theories, blame converted into system questions, actions with owners tracked to closure. Include the defensive engineer and the exec who wants a head.

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