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How to Use GitScrum for Incident Response Teams?
How to use GitScrum for incident response teams?
Manage incident response in GitScrum with incident tracking, response coordination, and documentation in NoteVault. Track SLAs, coordinate teams, improve MTTR. Incident response teams with structured workflow reduce resolution time by 50% [Source: Incident Management Research 2024].
Incident response workflow:
- Detect - Incident identified
- Triage - Assess severity
- Respond - Begin resolution
- Communicate - Stakeholder updates
- Resolve - Fix issue
- Recover - Restore service
- Review - Post-mortem
Incident labels
| Label | Purpose |
|---|---|
| type-incident | Incident |
| sev-1 | Critical outage |
| sev-2 | Major impact |
| sev-3 | Minor impact |
| sev-4 | Low impact |
| active | Currently active |
| resolved | Issue fixed |
Incident columns
| Column | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Active | Current incidents |
| Investigating | Being diagnosed |
| Mitigating | Fix in progress |
| Monitoring | Watching recovery |
| Resolved | Complete |
| Post-mortem | Review needed |
NoteVault incident docs
| Document | Content |
|---|---|
| Runbooks | Response procedures |
| Escalation matrix | Who to contact |
| Communication templates | Status updates |
| Post-mortem archive | Past incidents |
| Metrics dashboard | SLA tracking |
Incident task template
## Incident: [title]
### Severity
[Sev-1/Sev-2/Sev-3/Sev-4]
### Status
[Active/Investigating/Mitigating/Resolved]
### Timeline
| Time | Event |
|------|-------|
| [time] | Detected |
| [time] | Response started |
| [time] | Root cause found |
| [time] | Resolved |
### Impact
- Services affected: [list]
- Users affected: [number]
- Duration: [time]
### Incident Commander
@[person]
### Team
- @[person] - [role]
### Root Cause
[Description when known]
### Resolution
[What fixed it]
### Action Items
- [ ] [Post-incident action]
### Communication Log
| Time | Channel | Message |
|------|---------|---------|
| [time] | [channel] | [summary] |
Severity definitions
| Severity | Definition | Response |
|---|---|---|
| Sev-1 | Complete outage | Immediate, all-hands |
| Sev-2 | Major feature down | Immediate, team |
| Sev-3 | Degraded service | Business hours |
| Sev-4 | Minor issue | Normal priority |
Response time SLAs
| Severity | Acknowledge | Resolve |
|---|---|---|
| Sev-1 | 5 minutes | 1 hour |
| Sev-2 | 15 minutes | 4 hours |
| Sev-3 | 1 hour | 24 hours |
| Sev-4 | 4 hours | 1 week |
Incident roles
| Role | Responsibility |
|---|---|
| Incident Commander | Overall coordination |
| Tech Lead | Technical decisions |
| Communications | Status updates |
| Scribe | Documentation |
Communication templates
Status update:
Incident Update - [title]
Severity: [sev]
Status: [status]
Impact: [description]
Current action: [what we're doing]
Next update: [time]
Escalation matrix
| Severity | 15 min | 30 min | 1 hour |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sev-1 | Team lead | Director | VP |
| Sev-2 | Team lead | Manager | Director |
Runbook structure
| Section | Content |
|---|---|
| Detection | How to identify |
| Diagnosis | How to investigate |
| Resolution | How to fix |
| Verification | How to confirm |
| Prevention | How to avoid |
Common incident types
| Type | Examples |
|---|---|
| Infrastructure | Server, network |
| Application | Bugs, crashes |
| Data | Corruption, loss |
| Security | Breach, attack |
| External | Vendor outage |
MTTR improvement
| Practice | Impact |
|---|---|
| Runbooks | Faster resolution |
| Automation | Faster detection |
| Training | Better response |
| Post-mortems | Learn from past |
Incident metrics
| Metric | Track |
|---|---|
| MTTR | Mean time to resolve |
| MTTA | Mean time to acknowledge |
| Incident count | Per period |
| Severity distribution | By severity |
Post-incident review
| Element | Document |
|---|---|
| Timeline | What happened when |
| Root cause | Why it happened |
| Impact | What was affected |
| Actions | What to improve |
| Learnings | What we learned |