ChatOps is the implementation of chatbots to unify communication and collaboration. Through ChatOps every single member of a team will be aware of what the other members are working on. It is the logical next step in the evolution of communication among teams after email and IM. Projects of today are developed at a global scale with millions of people as potential users, this means that teams are larger and often work in shifts or even remotely.

An incident post mortem is known by many names- incident review, root cause analysis (RCA), learning review, but what do they entail?. A post mortem is a post-incident activity to help organizations understand how the incident happened and to learn from it. Service incidents are an unavoidable hurdle for any company when they do happen, the teams working will be wholly focussed on restoring service as quickly as possible.

Modern technology organizations are required to be adaptive in their approach to incident management. A single project will have multiple teams working as different branches on integrated systems. Even if all the members have unified communication channels when an interruption occurs in the service there’s bound to be chaos. The frontline response team will have to be on their toes to get to the root issues at the first signs of trouble.

An integral lesson every business (of any size) learns is that failure is inevitable at some point in the production cycle. There might be times where things go haywire at critical junctures sending teams scrambling to rectify the root issue and reinstate service. The underlying causes are often many and varied especially in large scale systems with complex architecture and interdependence.