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My org is large enough to have a dedicated 24/7 front line team that look after dozens (hundereda) of things. The churn in that team is high that you can’t rea
by midasuni 3y ago
My org is large enough to have a dedicated 24/7 front line team that look after dozens (hundereda) of things.
The churn in that team is high that you can’t really give them any significant training on every system. Even a 20 minute video would take weeks to onboard for a system they’ll likely never touch.
As far as I’m concerned a run book is there to stop me from being needlessly escalated to at 3am. If there’s a genuine problem then sure, I or another SME need to be contacted. Most of the time there’s a problem it is a reduction in resilience (so no need for out of hours contact), or something out of our control (loss of power in a location, failure of a circuit, in which case the 24 hour team can raise with the appropriate people.
I can count on one hand the number of problems worthy of a call out, and that’s in the last 7 years.
As such the first entry in my run book is “judging importance”.