Postmortem Attendance Policy

Who attends postmortems matters. The policy that gets the right people without it becoming a meeting bloat.

Required

Incident commander, scribe, on-call engineers from incident.

Senior tech lead of affected service.

Optional

Adjacent teams; product management; leadership.

Postmortem is shared async; attendance optional.

Avoid

Mandatory attendance for the org. Becomes a 30-person meeting.

Skipping the PM because attendance is hard. Async PMs are an alternative.