Incident Management
Practical
By Samson Tanimawo, PhD
Published Feb 4, 2026
4 min read
Game Day Evolution Over Years
Game days that don't evolve become routine. The yearly evolution that keeps them useful.
Live workflow · 3 working · 1 queuedLive
Signal · gather Working
Decide · pick action Working
Apply · with verify Working
Learn · update playbook Queued
Year 1
Common scenarios: deploy failure, region outage, vendor outage.
Build muscle for the obvious.
Year 2
Less common: data corruption, security incident, multi-region.
Stretch the team.
Year 3+
Cross-team. Cross-functional with support and product.
Test the org, not just the engineering team.