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Don't Be a Bystander, Be an Incident Commander

Many organizations have some kind of incident response process to coordinate during a major service outage. Some operationally mature companies incorporate a formal Incident Commander role in their process for a faster, more effective response. The Incident Commander serves as the final decision-maker during a major incident, delegating tasks and listening to input from subject matter experts in order to bring the incident to resolution.

Setting Up Your PagerDuty For Sweet Victory

Congratulations! You’ve just purchased PagerDuty, meaning you’ve decided to make an investment in your incident management process. However, in order to maximize your investment, you will need to understand all the moving pieces within PagerDuty. Today, we’ll be setting up PagerDuty for one team: the Bikini Bottom Team.

Cut Through Complexity With Better Event Intelligence

As operational complexity accelerates, our customers are realizing that it’s impossible to manage their services or innovate for their business without a mechanism to make sense of that complexity. That’s why our March product update focuses on Event Intelligence, which is all about turning chaotic monitoring data into actionable insights so that teams can work smarter and focus on the things that matter.

Best-of-breed or Monolith: what does your IT Ops tool stack need?

As a Product Manager at BigPanda, I like to stay in touch with our customers on a regular basis. Recently, I visited a customer of ours in Atlanta. As I was getting got out of my rental car in the company’s parking lot, I noticed him pulling in into his small parking space in a very large pickup truck. “Those are some big wheels”, I commented.

Incident management in ServiceDesk Plus

Learn how incident management works in ServiceDesk Plus, starting from ticket creation to its closure. ServiceDesk Plus is an IT service management software that helps organizations streamline their ticketing, and manage their IT efficiently, ensuring there's minimal downtime and top notch IT service delivery.

Postmortems Part 3: Getting The Most Out Of Your Postmortem Meetings

When we announced the launch of our Postmortem Guide, I wrote about the value of performing blameless postmortems and how to establish a culture of continuous learning. In this final installment of our blog series on postmortems, I share how to have effective postmortem meetings.