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.

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.