At many companies, incident is a four-letter word. An incident is an emergency; everyone must drop everything and extinguish the fire.
How your team reacts after that declaration depends on your incident management philosophy and processes.
We’ve found that normalizing declaring low-severity incidents increases psychological safety, builds important response muscles and helps surface problems before they become major.
Leaning into these low-severity incidents helps us grasp the small details about our product and incident management process.