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Renaming SRE outage "post-mortems" for psychological safety

As a generative leader and mental health advocate, I am sick of seeing such a morbid term being thrown around for what should be a learning experience that advances culture.

Ash P.
Feb 22
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Renaming SRE outage "post-mortems" for psychological safety
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This newsletter post will be different to my usual positive posts about the field of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Please bear with this because I’m an otherwise forward thinker looking toward a bright future for this space.

Two issues I have with the term post-mortem:

  1. It compromises the psychological safety of novice SREs

  2. It risks your job security in pathological organisations

Let’s unpack this.

Imagine being a new SRE and hearing all these fascinating terms like SLOs, observability, APM, Chaos Engineering etc. Then a term — typically reserved for…

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