Stop Writing Postmortems No One Reads: Build the Loop That Turns Incidents into a Modernization Backlog

If your incident reviews don’t change your roadmap, you’re paying outage tax without reducing future risk. Here’s the concrete loop that converts reviews into prioritized modernization work—without boiling the ocean or fighting Finance.

“If your incident review doesn’t change the roadmap, it’s theater. Ship the fix, prove the risk reduction, and publish the receipts.”
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Key takeaways

Implementation checklist