Incident
Post-incident Review retrospective template
Free blameless post-incident review template: what happened, impact, root causes, actions. End-to-end encrypted, no sign-up.
Opens a new board with these columns, right in your browser.
What is the Post-incident Review retrospective?
The Post-incident template structures a blameless review: What happened (timeline), Impact (who and what was affected), Root causes (contributing factors, not culprits) and Actions. Peel's end-to-end encryption means sensitive incident details stay between the team: the server cannot read the cards.
The columns
- What happened
- Impact
- Root causes
- Actions
When to use it
Use it after outages, security incidents, failed releases or customer escalations, ideally within a few days.
How to run it in Peel in 5 steps
- Create a Post-incident board and share the link with everyone involved.
- Build the timeline together in What happened.
- Write Impact and Root causes; focus on systems and conditions, not people.
- Vote on the root causes and discuss them.
- Write concrete Actions with owners and due dates, and export them to your tracker.
Frequently asked questions
How do we keep it blameless?
Cards are anonymous, and the prompts ask about conditions and causes. The facilitator can hide a card that targets a person.
Is it safe to discuss security incidents?
Cards are end-to-end encrypted: the key lives in the link fragment and never reaches our servers.