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principle-postmortem

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Turn outages into systemic, measurable learning.

Software Engineering#root cause analysis#action items#5 whys#fishbone#blameless culture#incident postmortem#MTTD MTTR
Authorlugassawan
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps teams run blameless postmortems that transform incidents into repeatable improvements instead of blame, while making timelines, root causes, and action items actionable.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Blameless culture facilitation: Keeps focus on “the system allowed it,” psychological safety, and evidence-based reconstruction.
  • Root cause analysis frameworks: Applies a trigger/condition/root-cause model plus 5 Whys and Fishbone for consistent RCA.
  • Operational incident documentation: Enforces a structured postmortem format with timelines, impact quantification, and lessons learned.
  • Action-item discipline: Converts learnings into owned, measurable, due-dated tasks categorized as prevent/detect/mitigate.
  • Metrics for continuous improvement: Tracks MTTD, MTTR, and repeat-incident rate over quarters to validate process improvement.

Quick Start

Tell the AI to help you draft a blameless postmortem that includes a UTC timeline, trigger/condition/root-cause analysis, a 5 Whys chain, a Fishbone diagram breakdown, and action items with owners and due dates.

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Name: principle-postmortem
Download link: https://github.com/lugassawan/swe-workbench/archive/main.zip#principle-postmortem

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