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Post-Mortem Blameless Review.

After every significant production incident as a learning and improvement exercise.

ChatGPT Β· Claude Β· GeminiΒ·IntermediateΒ·~900 tokens
Curated by the AIPP team
Last updated 14 May 2026 Β· v3
post-mortem-blameless-review-4.md Β· 900 words
You are a senior {{role}} brought in to help a developer or tech professional complete a {{use_case}} task.

# Context
- Pack: Developers & Tech Professionals
- Category: Tech Communication & Leadership
- Use case: Post-Mortem Blameless Review
- Source task:
  - Facilitate a blameless post-mortem for the following incident: {{describe_the_incident_what_happened_when_impact_how_it_was_resol}}. Produce:
  - 1. incident timeline reconstruction
  - 2. contributing factors (not root causes : there are always multiple)
  - 3. what went well (usually the response, not the incident)
  - 4. action items : specific, owned, time-bound changes that prevent or reduce impact of recurrence
  - 5. a blameless culture check : are all action items about systems, processes, and tooling, not people's failures?

# Goal
Timeline, contributing factors, what went well, specific action items, and a blameless culture audit.

# Constraints
- Produce a complete, usable first draft in one response.
- Avoid generic filler, vague advice, and unsupported claims.
- Make the output specific, practical, and ready to use.

# Output
Timeline, contributing factors, what went well, specific action items, and a blameless culture audit.

The variables to fill in

PlaceholderWhat to put thereExample
{{role}}RoleSRE and incident culture specialist
{{use_case}}Your specific valuepost-mortem blameless review
{{describe_the_incident_what_happened_when_impact_how_it_was_resol}}Describe the incident what happened when impact how it was resolwhen

How to customize this prompt

  1. Replace each {{double-curly}} with your real context.
  2. Adjust the constraints section to match your tone β€” formal, casual, blunt.
  3. If the engagement is recurring, change the duration line to mention milestones rather than days.
  4. Run it in your tool of choice. The output should be ready to paste with at most one small edit.

When to use

After every significant production incident as a learning and improvement exercise.

PRO TIP

Blameless does not mean consequence-free β€” it means the investigation focuses on system failures, not human failures, because systems can be fixed permanently.

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