Incident Retrospectives

Identifying incident patterns across multiple post-mortems

When to use

Use quarterly when reviewing incident trends. Turns individual incidents into a strategic reliability narrative for leadership.

Prompt Template

Review these incident summaries from the past {timeframe}: {incident_list} Identify: 1. Systemic patterns (are we seeing the same class of failure?) 2. Which action items from previous retros actually got completed vs. ignored 3. Team/service ownership gaps that keep appearing 4. Whether our detection/alerting is improving or stagnating 5. A prioritized list of infrastructure/process investments that would prevent the top 3 patterns 6. How to present this to leadership to get budget/headcount

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Output Format

Pattern analysis report with trend charts description, prioritized investment recommendations, and executive summary

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