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What is an Incident Timeline and How Do You Create One?

Jul 8, 2024 By Blameless In Blameless
Incidents are unavoidable in software development and IT. As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), one of the tools you’ll use frequently is an incident timeline. The incident timeline provides a real-time report on any incident, including alerts, system updates, issue severity changes, manual chat entries, and more.
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SRE vs. DevOps vs. Platform Engineering

Jul 8, 2024 By Blameless In Blameless
The age of information technology has rapidly expanded to include a wide range of necessary roles to manage and optimize operational frameworks. Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), Development Operations (DevOps), and Platform Engineers have become invaluable within this digital landscape. Here, you’ll learn more about each role, how they differ, and what they bring to the table.
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Igniting Innovation: The Power of Empowered Engineers

Apr 25, 2024 By Lee Atchison In Blameless
In the fast-paced world of technology, innovation is not just a buzzword—it's a necessity. As organizations strive to stay ahead of the curve and deliver cutting-edge solutions, they must foster a culture that empowers engineers to drive change and lead transformative projects. Throughout my career, I have witnessed firsthand the impact that empowered engineers can have on an organization, and I believe that unlocking their potential is key to achieving long-term success.
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Unleashing the Change Maker Within: Secrets to Driving Change in Your Organization

Apr 18, 2024 By Blameless In Blameless
Hello, Innovators! If you've ever believed in the potential for change within your organization but weren’t sure how to advocate for it, this webinar is designed with you in mind. "Unleashing the Change Maker Within: Secrets to Driving Change in Your Organization” is not just another webinar; it's a beacon for engineers, SREs, and tech enthusiasts eager to make a tangible difference in their companies.
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The real cost of a blameful culture

Apr 10, 2024 By Lee Atchison In Blameless
In the fast-paced world of IT operations, the culture permeating an organization is critical to its success. It drives behavior, efficiency, and organizational accomplishment. A blame-centric culture is particularly detrimental, creating an environment where finger-pointing is more important than problem-solving and fear reduces innovation. This negative culture damages individual morale and erodes the organization's collective resilience.
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Unleashing the Change Maker Within Webinar Preview

Apr 2, 2024 By Blameless In Blameless
Join us on April 16th at 10 a.m. PT for a 60-minute live webinar, where we'll discuss the secrets to driving change in your organization. We'll tackle two of reliability's biggest issues: getting budget and garnering support. Join us for Unleashing the Change Maker Within at 10 a.m. PST. We'll show you how to empower yourself to drive organizational change. Discover the secrets to selling your boss on the tools you need to automate your workflow and streamline your processes. We'll equip you with the strategies and insights to turn your great ideas into actionable plans.
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What are Blameless Retrospectives? How Do You Run Them?

Mar 29, 2024 By Lee Atchison In Blameless
In most engineering organizations, everyone agrees that in complex systems, failure is inevitable. It’s possible to prevent the recurrence of certain incidents, reduce their impact, or shorten the time to resolution. However, it’s impossible to avoid them altogether. In the past, we asserted failures are a result of people’s mistakes. It was all about “the bad apple theory,” focused on finding the “guilty party” and removing them to prevent future failures.
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Incident Response Team | Roles & Responsibilities Defined

Mar 29, 2024 By Lee Atchison In Blameless
When your organization faces outages, errors, security breaches, and other incidents, you need to have a plan in place to take appropriate actions as needed. However, you also need a capable team of experts filling critical roles and responsibilities to execute those actions and effectively collaborate to resolve issues quickly. An incident response team, therefore should be developed in a way that avoids skills gaps in expertise.
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Incident Management Automation - What You Should Know

Mar 29, 2024 By Lee Atchison In Blameless
Automated incident management is the process of automating incident response to ensure that critical events are detected and addressed in the most efficient and consistent manner. In incident management, time is of the essence and the primary benefit of automated incident management is speed. With automation, you can accomplish time-consuming tasks much quicker. This brings down the incident response time and allows the team to focus their attention on matters that require their expertise.
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Giving Power Back To The Engineers: A Fireside Chat with MyFitnessPal

Mar 26, 2024 By Blameless In Blameless
The real secret to mastering engineering operations is putting engineers in the driver's seat. On March 26th at 10 am, Chris Karper, Sr. Director of Engineering at MyFitnessPal, joins Chief Reliability Officer, Lee Atchison to discuss how MyFitnessPal is overcoming incidents by giving power back to the engineers. They'll explore how Chris has navigated MyFitnessPal through its technological advancements, growth of the team, and the maturity of its incident management program.
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