Blameless Postmortem

Blameless postmortems analyze incidents focusing on system improvements rather than individual blame.

What is a Blameless Postmortem?

A blameless postmortem is a review process after an incident that focuses on understanding what happened and improving systems rather than assigning blame to individuals.

Postmortem components

Timeline, Impact, Root cause analysis, Action items, Lessons learned.

Common misconceptions

"Blameless means no accountability" — Accountability for actions, not blame
"Postmortems are punishment" — Learning opportunity
"Only major incidents need postmortems" — Valuable for any incident