@nateberkopec At Shopify, every incident above a certain severity comes with a GMV analysis — basically, “how much did this incident cost?” Having data like that easily accessible is vital for convincing feature-focused teams to spend time on operational concerns.

It’s hard to argue against “related incidents cost $X million last year” and “you’ll get paged Y% less often if we do this”. When people don’t like the work itself, you have to help them understand that they do want the results.

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nate berkopec

@jamie Love that. Can you easily aggregate this stuff? I.e. go into a spreadsheet and say "sum of all incident costs for area X"? One of the problems we had at gusto was making incident data more structured so you could do stuff like that (rather than a collection of unstructured docs)

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