Postmortem Analysis Quality Check

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Daniel Okoye

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Reflect on postmortem analysis to ensure root causes are truly identified.

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I wrote this postmortem analysis. Help me reflect on whether I truly identified root causes:

Incident Summary:
{{incident_summary}}

My Root Cause Analysis:
{{my_analysis}}

Proposed Action Items:
{{action_items}}

Critically reflect on my analysis:

1. DEPTH CHECK
   - Did I stop at symptoms or reach true root causes?
   - How many times did I ask "why" before stopping?
   - What deeper systemic issues might I have missed?

2. BLAME VS SYSTEM
   - Am I blaming individuals instead of systems?
   - What process failures enabled the human error?
   - What guardrails were missing?

3. ACTION ITEM QUALITY
   - Are my action items specific and measurable?
   - Will they actually prevent recurrence?
   - Am I proposing band-aids or structural fixes?

4. MISSING PERSPECTIVES
   - What would other teams identify that I missed?
   - What customer impact did I understate?
   - What contributing factors did I dismiss?

5. REVISED POSTMORTEM
   Rewrite the root cause section and action items to:
   - Address true systemic causes
   - Include measurable prevention
   - Avoid blame while ensuring accountability

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Productivity

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Postmortem quality improvementRoot cause validationIncident learning enhancement

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