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Crisis Communication Breakdown Lessons Learned at VictorOps Michael Merideth, VictorOps Blake Thorne, StatusPage.io

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Crisis Communication Breakdown

Lessons Learned at VictorOps

Michael Merideth, VictorOpsBlake Thorne, StatusPage.io

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Crisis Communications at VictorOps

One Goal: Keep Our Brand

Promise

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The Beginner’s Path

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Our Process: A Work in Progress

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Crisis Communication is Scary!

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Not Communicating is Worse!

“Nature abhors a vacuum”-Aristotle

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Honesty Pays Dividends

“I cannot tell a lie…”

-Teddy Roosevelt

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It Takes Buy-In At All Levels

DevOps can’t just go it alone

Every business function has something to contribute

Messaging needs to be accurate, but also accessible

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Agree on When, and How Often

Generally: Communicate as soon as possible

Some issues need to be contained before they become public

Set a regular cadence for updates

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Agree on What Gets Communicated

Help your users make intelligent choices and you’ll like their decisions better

Provide context and realistic ETAs

Use Incident Templates to ease messaging

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Agree on Who Manages the Message

Speak with a single, consistent voice

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Agree on Where the Message is Shared

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VictorOps’ Cross-Functional CC Team

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Crisis Communication Training and Certification

Institute For Crisis Management:http://crisisconsultant.com/

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Non-Disruptive Crisis Communication

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The CC Process can Help During the Firefight

Context

InsightData

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Applied DevOps: Retrospect on the CC Process

•What went well?•What could have gone better?•Action items:•Continue doing…•Stop doing...•Start doing...

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Applied DevOps: X-Functional Post-Mortems

What was the technical impact?

What was the business impact?

What was the reputational impact?

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Applied DevOps: The VO Toolset

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Key Takeaways• Your failures will become public

• Who controls when and how the information gets out: you, or someone else?

• Having a plan makes crisis communication less of a burden on the people fighting the fire

• Doing it right will build trust and loyalty with your users