Meeting Bingo

Postmortem Bingo

Blameless. Mostly. Same root cause as last quarter, somehow.

Blameless. Mostly. Same root cause as last quarter, somehow.
Blameless
Timeline first
Five whys
Root cause
Contributing factor
Detection time
Mitigation time
Resolution time
MTTR
Customer impact
Customer comms
Better alerting
Better runbooks
Tests didn't catch it
Code review missed it
Manual rollback
Toil item
Tech debt warning
Same root cause as last time
Different cause, same outcome
Action item: owner TBD
Action item: SRE
Add a runbook
Add a dashboard
Close out by Friday
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How to play

Open this page during your next postmortem. Click a square when you hear the phrase. Five in a row wins absolutely nothing. The point is the survival, not the prize.

Squares 25
Players 1+
Reward dignity
More bingo cards
Standup Bingo→All-Hands Bingo→Sprint Planning Bingo→Retro Bingo→1:1 Bingo→Performance Review Bingo→

This was, of course, a meeting that should have been an email.

Run the fake meeting simulator. Generate a bingo card. Be busy without being there.

Open the simulator →
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