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Nw Post Mortem Framework by nwave-ai

Name: Nw Post Mortem Framework
Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Author: nWave-ai

File contents

Post-Mortem Framework

Principles

Blameless: focus on systems/processes, not individuals. People make reasonable decisions given available info.
Evidence-based: every finding backed by logs, metrics, or documented actions
Action-oriented: every finding produces concrete, assigned action item
Learning-focused: capture what worked alongside what failed

Post-Mortem Document Structure

# Post-Mortem: [Incident Title]

**Date**: [incident date]
**Duration**: [start to resolution]
**Severity**: [P0-P3]
**Author**: [analyst]

## Summary
[2-3 sentence overview: what happened, impact, resolution]

## Timeline
| Time | Event | Source |
|------|-------|--------|
| HH:MM | [event] | [log/metric/report] |

## Impact
- Users affected: [number/percentage]
- Duration of impact: [time]
- Business impact: [quantified if possible]
- Systems affected: [list]

## Root Cause Analysis
[5 Whys analysis with evidence at each level]

## Detection and Response
- Time to detect: [duration] -- [how detected]
- Time to respond: [duration] -- [first action]
- Time to mitigate: [duration] -- [mitigation applied]
- Time to resolve: [duration] -- [permanent fix]

## What Went Well
- [positive observations about detection, response, recovery]

## What Could Be Improved
- [areas where detection, response, recovery fell short]

## Action Items
| ID | Action | Owner | Priority | Due Date |
|----|--------|-------|----------|----------|
| 1 | [specific action] | [team/person] | [P0-P3] | [date] |

## Lessons Learned
- [key takeaways for the organization]

Incident Timeline Reconstruction

Sources

Monitoring alerts/dashboards (timestamps) | 2. Deployment logs/CI-CD records
Communication channels (Slack, email, incident) | 4. VCS (commits, merges, deploys) | 5. User reports/support tickets

Quality Checks

Events chronological with verified timestamps | gaps >5 min noted/explained | decision points identified with available info | causal relationships noted

Response Effectiveness Evaluation

Detection

Detected by monitoring or users? | Duration onset-to-detection? | Existing alerts relevant? Missing?

Escalation

Right team at right time? | Procedures followed? | Communication clear to stakeholders?

Resolution

Mitigation effective? | Rollback considered/viable? | Duration mitigation-to-permanent-fix?

Organizational Learning

Knowledge Capture

Document root causes as reusable patterns | update runbooks | share in retrospectives

Process Improvements

Update monitoring/alerting per detection gaps | revise deployment per rollback effectiveness | strengthen testing for failure scenario

Action Item Tracking

Every item has owner + due date | track in standups/sprint reviews | verify effectiveness post-deployment

Source: nWave-ai/nWave → nWave/skills/nw-post-mortem-framework/SKILL.md

Also appears in: nWave-ai/nWave/plugins/nw/skills/nw-post-mortem-framework/SKILL.md

---name: nw-post-mortem-frameworkdescription: Blameless post-mortem structure, incident timeline reconstruction, response evaluation, and organizational learning---# Post-Mortem Framework## Principles- **Blameless**: focus on systems/processes, not individuals. People make reasonable decisions given available info.- **Evidence-based**: every finding backed by logs, metrics, or documented actions- **Action-oriented**: every finding produces concrete, assigned action item- **Learning-focused**: capture what worked alongside what failed## Post-Mortem Document Structure```markdown# Post-Mortem: [Incident Title]**Date**: [incident date]**Duration**: [start to resolution]**Severity**: [P0-P3]**Author**: [analyst]## Summary[2-3 sentence overview: what happened, impact, resolution]## Timeline| Time | Event | Source ||------|-------|--------|| HH:MM | [event] | [log/metric/report] |## Impact- Users affected: [number/percentage]- Duration of impact: [time]- Business impact: [quantified if possible]- Systems affected: [list]## Root Cause Analysis[5 Whys analysis with evidence at each level]## Detection and Response- Time to detect: [duration] -- [how detected]- Time to respond: [duration] -- [first action]- Time to mitigate: [duration] -- [mitigation applied]- Time to resolve: [duration] -- [permanent fix]## What Went Well- [positive observations about detection, response, recovery]## What Could Be Improved- [areas where detection, response, recovery fell short]## Action Items| ID | Action | Owner | Priority | Due Date ||----|--------|-------|----------|----------|| 1 | [specific action] | [team/person] | [P0-P3] | [date] |## Lessons Learned- [key takeaways for the organization]```## Incident Timeline Reconstruction### Sources1. Monitoring alerts/dashboards (timestamps) | 2. Deployment logs/CI-CD records3. Communication channels (Slack, email, incident) | 4. VCS (commits, merges, deploys) | 5. User reports/support tickets### Quality ChecksEvents chronological with verified timestamps | gaps >5 min noted/explained | decision points identified with available info | causal relationships noted## Response Effectiveness Evaluation### DetectionDetected by monitoring or users? | Duration onset-to-detection? | Existing alerts relevant? Missing?### EscalationRight team at right time? | Procedures followed? | Communication clear to stakeholders?### ResolutionMitigation effective? | Rollback considered/viable? | Duration mitigation-to-permanent-fix?## Organizational Learning### Knowledge CaptureDocument root causes as reusable patterns | update runbooks | share in retrospectives### Process ImprovementsUpdate monitoring/alerting per detection gaps | revise deployment per rollback effectiveness | strengthen testing for failure scenario### Action Item TrackingEvery item has owner + due date | track in standups/sprint reviews | verify effectiveness post-deployment---**Source:** [`nWave-ai/nWave`](https://github.com/nWave-ai/nWave) → `nWave/skills/nw-post-mortem-framework/SKILL.md`**Also appears in:** `nWave-ai/nWave/plugins/nw/skills/nw-post-mortem-framework/SKILL.md`

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