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title: "Blameless post-mortem"
description: "An incident review that identifies contributing causes without indicting any individual or team, on the premise that people acted reasonably on what they knew and that systems and processes are what…"
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/blameless-post-mortem
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-24
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# Blameless post-mortem

An incident review that identifies contributing causes without indicting any individual or team, on the premise that people acted reasonably on what they knew and that systems and processes are what can be fixed [1]. Its triggers are set in advance.

- Developed in: [ch. 17, Techniques](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/incidents#techniques)
- Chapters: [ch. 17, Incidents](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/incidents)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-blameless-post-mortem

## Sources

[1] "Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure" (Site Reliability Engineering, ch. 15). Google. 2016. https://sre.google/sre-book/postmortem-culture/ (verified: primary)