When we announced the launch of our Postmortem Guide, I wrote about the value of performing blameless postmortems and how to establish a culture of continuous learning. In this final installment of our blog series on postmortems, I share how to have effective postmortem meetings.
It’s already a couple of months into the new year, but a lot of us are still likely thinking about what we can improve on. You can call it resolutions, goals, or something else, but many of us will be fine-tuning our mindsets and attitudes so we can be more productive and successful in 2019. In this blog, I’ll detail why I developed an Agile approach to goals for the year—and how adopting an Agile mindset can help you achieve yours.
Have you ever been on one of those phone calls with several other human beings where you’re all almost screaming at each other while trying to troubleshoot an issue when something’s going wrong that needs to be fixed right this instant? Did you really enjoy that experience and want to do it all the time? My guess is no.
At PagerDuty, we’re counting down the days until the RSA Conference! Why? Because, in addition to being excited to see everyone there, we also have lots of new information to share—information in line with this year’s conference theme: Better. More specifically, how to improve security at your organization by having better processes and better collaboration.
Recently, I sat down with Ana Medina of Gremlin for a PagerDuty Community AMA! Ana is currently working as a Chaos Engineer at Gremlin, helping companies avoid outages by running proactive chaos engineering experiments. Previously, she worked at Uber as an engineer on the SRE and Infrastructure teams, where she specifically focused on chaos engineering and cloud computing. Catch her tweeting at @Ana_M_Medina about traveling, diversity in tech, and mental health.
This month is a big month for PagerDuty—we turned 10 on February 18! I never imagined we’d reach this milestone, honestly. A lot of Dutonians have asked me recently: When you first started PagerDuty, did you ever imagine it would become what it is today?
Last fall, we introduced PagerDuty Analytics, a product that combines machine and human response data to provide operational insights that enable organizations to drive process maturity and improved business outcomes. Today, we’re excited to announce that it’s generally available! As part of our expanded Analytics product offering, we’re rolling out a set of prescriptive operational performance scorecards.
Culture is the way we do things together. It’s the secret sauce that results in happy, healthy teams that consistently meet their goals. It’s also the hardest thing to define, cultivate, and change in an organization. True cultural change requires more than creating and communicating policies. It takes collaboration, persistence, and experimentation.
Your team had been fighting this major incident for hours, but your investigation was hitting one dead end after another. Finally, you managed to isolate the problem and your graphs started to improve. When all systems went back to normal, everyone let out a collective sigh of relief, shut down the response call, and went back to bed, never to think of this incident again. Or so you thought.
To kick off the year, we’re launching a monthly blog series to share new product announcements on an ongoing basis. This month, we’re excited to announce several new integrations, as well as the new global events rule API that empowers admins and developers to easily manage event rules at scale. (Be sure to also check out our platform release notes to stay up-to-date on what’s new.)
