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41554 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0877e-c6de-7377-864a-df8d1e4eee76", "title": "How senior leaders disrupt incidents just by showing up", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/08/18/how-senior-leaders-disrupt-incidents-by-showing-up/", "published_at": "2026-08-18T15:55:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877e-c6df-727e-b985-5512840e21c0", "title": "When declaring an incident becomes everyone’s favorite workaround", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/08/11/declaring-incidents-for-side-effects/", "published_at": "2026-08-11T15:46:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877e-c6df-727e-b985-5512841e2887", "title": "Incidents start before the response does", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/08/04/detection-gap/", "published_at": "2026-08-04T15:51:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877e-c6e0-7080-aee8-d3987d3a0acd", "title": "Respecting fatigue isn’t coddling", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/07/28/respecting-fatigue-isnt-coddling/", "published_at": "2026-07-28T15:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877e-c6e0-7080-aee8-d3987dbf2655", "title": "Heroic saves are near misses", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/07/21/heroic-saves-are-near-misses/", "published_at": "2026-07-21T15:58:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877e-c6e0-7080-aee8-d3987dda54c3", "title": "Without a program to support them, incident management processes wither", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/07/14/incident-management-process-versus-program/", "published_at": "2026-07-14T16:16:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877e-c6e0-7080-aee8-d3987e894d97", "title": "Avoiding counterproductive pep talks", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/07/07/counterproductive-pep-talks/", "published_at": "2026-07-07T16:17:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877e-c6e0-7080-aee8-d3987f5267fc", "title": "Area Command: what to do when incidents collide", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/06/30/area-command/", "published_at": "2026-06-30T15:57:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877e-c6e0-7080-aee8-d39880522afd", "title": "Workstreams, for when your incident channel gets too congested", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/06/23/incident-workstreams/", "published_at": "2026-06-23T15:42:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877e-c6e0-7080-aee8-d3988057ee94", "title": "Modern software architecture means nobody has the whole picture. To assemble one in an emergency, you need an incident tech lead.", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/06/16/incident-tech-lead/", "published_at": "2026-06-16T16:23:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c510-083a-7106-9c34-795fd3999209", "title": "The on-call cost of AI-generated code", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/06/09/on-call-cost-of-ai-generated-code/", "published_at": "2026-06-09T16:06:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c510-083a-7106-9c34-795fd461b63a", "title": "AI ops tools are quietly eroding the awareness teams need during incidents", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/06/04/ai-ops-tools-ironies-of-automation/", "published_at": "2026-06-04T16:19:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c510-083a-7106-9c34-795fd4bc117f", "title": "The incident metrics mirage", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/05/26/incident-metrics-mirage/", "published_at": "2026-05-26T15:54:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c510-083a-7106-9c34-795fd595346d", "title": "Most incident “freelancing” is really an infrastructure problem", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/05/18/incident-freelancing-infrastructure-problem/", "published_at": "2026-05-18T21:19:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c510-083a-7106-9c34-795fd65d0968", "title": "The Post-Incident Review Meeting: three meetings in a trench coat", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/05/12/three-meetings-in-a-trench-coat/", "published_at": "2026-05-12T16:56:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c510-083a-7106-9c34-795fd7502d47", "title": "The Problem with AI-Generated Post-Incident Reviews", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/05/05/problem-with-ai-generated-post-incident-reviews/", "published_at": "2026-05-05T17:00:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c510-083a-7106-9c34-795fd80f0a93", "title": "Self-blame isn’t blameless", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/04/21/self-blame-isnt-blameless/", "published_at": "2026-04-21T16:31:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c510-083a-7106-9c34-795fd888d62e", "title": "Why you keep losing your incident commander to debugging", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/04/14/ic-lost-to-debugging/", "published_at": "2026-04-14T16:42:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c510-083a-7106-9c34-795fd8918dd2", "title": "Why NASA flight director Gene Kranz is the gold standard for incident commanders", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/04/07/gene-kranz-gold-standard/", "published_at": "2026-04-07T15:29:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c510-083a-7106-9c34-795fd8f61538", "title": "Incident status updates are a translation problem, and the right translator probably isn’t in Engineering", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/03/31/status-update-translation/", "published_at": "2026-03-31T16:20:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51e-18a5-723f-a2c7-154aa513b626", "title": "In incidents, swarming is a feature, not a bug", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/03/24/swarming-is-a-feature/", "published_at": "2026-03-24T14:19:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51e-18a5-723f-a2c7-154aa5ea349c", "title": "Most Companies Wait Too Long to Declare Incidents", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/03/17/when-to-declare-an-incident/", "published_at": "2026-03-17T16:45:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51e-18a5-723f-a2c7-154aa6aed503", "title": "What Is an “Incident”?", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/03/10/what-is-an-incident/", "published_at": "2026-03-10T16:18:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51e-18a5-723f-a2c7-154aa7777687", "title": "Self-briefing: how to join an incident without interrupting to ask “what’s going on?”", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/03/03/self-briefing/", "published_at": "2026-03-03T15:06:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51e-18a5-723f-a2c7-154aa7a9d654", "title": "Is your team reacting to incidents, or responding?", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/02/23/reacting-vs-responding/", "published_at": "2026-02-23T22:34:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51e-18a5-723f-a2c7-154aa880aa60", "title": "The social contract of emergency mode", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2026/02/16/emergency-mode-social-contract/", "published_at": "2026-02-17T01:55:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51e-18a5-723f-a2c7-154aa914e3d8", "title": "Don’t get caught off guard: prepare for incident tool failures", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2025/10/20/dont-get-caught-off-guard-prepare-for-incident-tool-failures/", "published_at": "2025-10-20T18:16:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51e-18a5-723f-a2c7-154aa9f40aec", "title": "Crafting impactful incident SitReps", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2025/10/15/crafting-impactful-incident-sitreps/", "published_at": "2025-10-15T18:43:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51e-18a5-723f-a2c7-154aaabb9c09", "title": "Security Incidents vs. Availability Incidents", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2025/10/08/security-incidents-vs-availability-incidents/", "published_at": "2025-10-08T17:28:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51e-18a5-723f-a2c7-154aab699b10", "title": "Clearer delegation, smoother incidents", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2025/10/02/clearer-delegation-smoother-incidents/", "published_at": "2025-10-02T15:45:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-39be-711a-a792-0a2c298534fc", "title": "Why Slack outshines Zoom for incident management", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2025/06/09/why-slack-outshines-zoom-for-incident-management/", "published_at": "2025-06-09T20:41:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-39be-711a-a792-0a2c2a2756f6", "title": "Incident management lessons from the kitchen at Thanksgiving", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2024/12/02/incident-management-lessons-from-the-kitchen-at-thanksgiving/", "published_at": "2024-12-02T18:50:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-39be-711a-a792-0a2c2a49b9d4", "title": "To minimize incident impact, focus first on mitigation, not resolution", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2024/11/18/to-minimize-incident-impact-focus-first-on-mitigation-not-resolution/", "published_at": "2024-11-18T21:39:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-39be-711a-a792-0a2c2aa5b2f4", "title": "Slack’s fantastic lunchtime incident management exercise", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2024/10/29/slacks-fantastic-lunchtime-incident-management-exercise/", "published_at": "2024-10-29T17:21:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-39be-711a-a792-0a2c2b77c0e3", "title": "How do layoffs affect incident management?", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2023/04/04/how-do-layoffs-affect-incident-management/", "published_at": "2023-04-04T13:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-39be-711a-a792-0a2c2bf4a492", "title": "Updating your resume? Highlight your incident management experience!", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2023/03/29/highlight-your-incident-management-experience-on-your-resume/", "published_at": "2023-03-29T13:05:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-39be-711a-a792-0a2c2c6d3853", "title": "See you at the Learning From Incidents Conference in Denver, Feb 15-16?", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2023/01/11/see-you-at-the-learning-from-incidents-conference-in-denver-feb-15-16/", "published_at": "2023-01-11T16:49:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-39be-711a-a792-0a2c2cdfc2cf", "title": "How best to reopen a closed incident? (Hint: Don’t!)", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2022/12/14/how-best-to-reopen-a-closed-incident/", "published_at": "2022-12-14T17:56:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-39be-711a-a792-0a2c2d373edc", "title": "When The Boss should not be The Boss", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2022/10/18/when-the-boss-should-not-be-the-boss/", "published_at": "2022-10-18T15:09:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c529-39be-711a-a792-0a2c2d39ba30", "title": "[tap, tap] Does this thing still work? Oh, hi there… I’m back!", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2022/01/25/tap-tap-does-this-thing-still-work-oh-hi-there-im-back/", "published_at": "2022-01-25T16:35:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-590c-714b-a6ff-bdb06b8e1d42", "title": "Why is it important to separate the Incident Commander and Tech Lead roles?", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2018/08/01/why-is-it-important-to-separate-the-incident-commander-and-tech-lead-roles/", "published_at": "2018-08-02T00:03:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-590c-714b-a6ff-bdb06c165663", "title": "What’s the most interesting question in a blameless postmortem?", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2018/07/11/whats-the-most-interesting-question-in-a-blameless-postmortem/", "published_at": "2018-07-11T23:05:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-590c-714b-a6ff-bdb06ce295f7", "title": "How often should your engineers be on call?", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2018/04/30/how-often-should-your-engineers-be-on-call/", "published_at": "2018-04-30T18:45:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-590c-714b-a6ff-bdb06d1f265d", "title": "How to improve your incident response times", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2018/04/24/how-to-improve-your-incident-response-times/", "published_at": "2018-04-24T17:13:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-590c-714b-a6ff-bdb06ddf64ae", "title": "Senior managers, stop disrupting your team’s incident responses", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2018/04/04/senior-managers-stop-disrupting-your-teams-incident-responses/", "published_at": "2018-04-04T15:09:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-590c-714b-a6ff-bdb06e85a751", "title": "Speaking about Lessons from the Fire Department at BayLISA next Thu 3/15 in San Jose", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2018/03/06/speaking-about-lessons-from-the-fire-department-at-baylisa-next-thu-3-15-in-san-jose/", "published_at": "2018-03-06T17:03:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-590c-714b-a6ff-bdb06edb2b8e", "title": "Was your last outage like Apollo 13, or more like Titanic?", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2018/02/27/was-your-last-outage-like-apollo-13-or-more-like-titanic/", "published_at": "2018-02-27T16:54:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-590c-714b-a6ff-bdb06ef82e72", "title": "Mastering Outages full-day class scheduled", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2018/02/20/mastering-outages-full-day-class-scheduled/", "published_at": "2018-02-20T17:40:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-590c-714b-a6ff-bdb06fd8b47b", "title": "Why does incident management matter?", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2018/02/13/why-does-incident-management-matter/", "published_at": "2018-02-13T21:42:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c534-590c-714b-a6ff-bdb070a644c2", "title": "Everybody wants to be a hero", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2018/01/09/everybody-wants-to-be-a-hero/", "published_at": "2018-01-09T16:59:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-9fa6-70c3-882d-375a5853f12e", "title": "Routine Emergencies", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2017/12/05/routine-emergencies/", "published_at": "2017-12-05T16:34:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53e-9fa6-70c3-882d-375a58b3e992", "title": "Offering Incident Management Consulting and Training", "url": "https://greatcircle.com/blog/2017/11/16/offering-incident-management-consulting-and-training/", "published_at": "2017-11-16T18:40:53+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

How senior leaders disrupt incidents just by showing uporiginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
When declaring an incident becomes everyone’s favorite workaroundoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2026
Incidents start before the response doesoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2026
Respecting fatigue isn’t coddlingoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2026
Heroic saves are near missesoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
Without a program to support them, incident management processes witheroriginal ↗
14 Jul 2026
Avoiding counterproductive pep talksoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2026
Area Command: what to do when incidents collideoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2026
Workstreams, for when your incident channel gets too congestedoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2026
Modern software architecture means nobody has the whole picture. To assemble one in an emergency, you need an incident tech lead.original ↗
16 Jun 2026
The on-call cost of AI-generated codeoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2026
AI ops tools are quietly eroding the awareness teams need during incidentsoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2026
The incident metrics mirageoriginal ↗
26 May 2026
Most incident “freelancing” is really an infrastructure problemoriginal ↗
18 May 2026
The Post-Incident Review Meeting: three meetings in a trench coatoriginal ↗
12 May 2026
The Problem with AI-Generated Post-Incident Reviewsoriginal ↗
5 May 2026
Self-blame isn’t blamelessoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2026
Why you keep losing your incident commander to debuggingoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2026
Why NASA flight director Gene Kranz is the gold standard for incident commandersoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2026
Incident status updates are a translation problem, and the right translator probably isn’t in Engineeringoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2026
In incidents, swarming is a feature, not a bugoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2026
Most Companies Wait Too Long to Declare Incidentsoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2026
What Is an “Incident”?original ↗
10 Mar 2026
Self-briefing: how to join an incident without interrupting to ask “what’s going on?”original ↗
3 Mar 2026
Is your team reacting to incidents, or responding?original ↗
23 Feb 2026
The social contract of emergency modeoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2026

2025

Don’t get caught off guard: prepare for incident tool failuresoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2025
Crafting impactful incident SitRepsoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2025
Security Incidents vs. Availability Incidentsoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2025
Clearer delegation, smoother incidentsoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2025
Why Slack outshines Zoom for incident managementoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2025

2024

Incident management lessons from the kitchen at Thanksgivingoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2024
To minimize incident impact, focus first on mitigation, not resolutionoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2024
Slack’s fantastic lunchtime incident management exerciseoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2024

2023

How do layoffs affect incident management?original ↗
4 Apr 2023
Updating your resume? Highlight your incident management experience!original ↗
29 Mar 2023
See you at the Learning From Incidents Conference in Denver, Feb 15-16?original ↗
11 Jan 2023

2022

How best to reopen a closed incident? (Hint: Don’t!)original ↗
14 Dec 2022
When The Boss should not be The Bossoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2022
[tap, tap] Does this thing still work? Oh, hi there… I’m back!original ↗
25 Jan 2022

2018

Why is it important to separate the Incident Commander and Tech Lead roles?original ↗
2 Aug 2018
What’s the most interesting question in a blameless postmortem?original ↗
11 Jul 2018
How often should your engineers be on call?original ↗
30 Apr 2018
How to improve your incident response timesoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2018
Senior managers, stop disrupting your team’s incident responsesoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2018
Speaking about Lessons from the Fire Department at BayLISA next Thu 3/15 in San Joseoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2018
Was your last outage like Apollo 13, or more like Titanic?original ↗
27 Feb 2018
Mastering Outages full-day class scheduledoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2018
Why does incident management matter?original ↗
13 Feb 2018
Everybody wants to be a herooriginal ↗
9 Jan 2018

2017

Routine Emergenciesoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2017
Offering Incident Management Consulting and Trainingoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2017