Some production incidents aren’t caused by bad code.
Or broken infrastructure.
Or missing alerts.
They’re caused by too many smart people trying to help at the same time.
That’s what Day 18 is about.
The Incident Nobody Expects
The alerts fire.
A Slack channel is created.
Within minutes, everyone joins.
Backend.
Frontend.
DevOps.
SRE.
Managers.
Product.
Security.
Everyone wants to help.
And that’s exactly when the incident starts getting worse.
Why This Feels Like Progress (But Isn’t)
In a war room, activity explodes:
Messages fly.
Commands run.
Services restart.
Caches flush.
Flags flip.
Rollbacks happen.
Roll-forwards happen.
From the inside, it feels productive.
From the outside, the system keeps bleeding.
No single owner.
No shared timeline.
No one tracking what actually changed.
Just motion.
The Quiet Damage Most Teams Miss
What breaks here isn’t just the system.
It’s trust.
Leadership doesn’t see effort.
They see delay.
They see silence.
They see confusion.
And once trust erodes during an incident,
it doesn’t come back quickly — even after recovery.
What Strong Teams Do Differently
The difference isn’t intelligence.
It isn’t experience.
It isn’t better tools.
It’s structure.
Strong teams slow things down before they speed them up.
They establish ownership.
They control change.
They create one shared understanding of reality.
This episode breaks down why that matters, and what happens when it’s missing.
Why You Should Watch This Episode
If you’ve ever:
Been in a noisy war room
Felt busy but unsure if things were improving
Watched an incident drag on despite “all hands”
Wondered why coordination feels harder than debugging
This episode will feel uncomfortably familiar.
It’s not about blame.
It’s about patterns teams repeat without noticing.
▶️ Watch Day 18 — The War Room Incident
This episode walks through:
How war rooms quietly go wrong
Why parallel fixes cause serial damage
How structure beats speed in real incidents
What strong teams do before they touch production
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