[heelix]

This happens within big organizations that are large enough where they start having that internal small company feel within units. I would say a good program, which could be small or a chunk in a massive org, does a blameless post mortem.

A few years back, a task to modify an index was given to a scrum team. The lead was away and the senior people could not be bothered. The junior developer stack overflowed an answer, asked for review, tested the script and let it rip. She missed that the change deleted everything if you noticed. Every environment, every data center wiped out. 10B records in each prod instance. Lessons were learned and processes fixed. She was not fired, but rather became one of the people safeguarding the keys to our prod kingdom as we fixed out broken process. I stole her away as my first report when I switched groups.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

Suddenly I don't feel so bad about deleting an entire PVCS repository (happily answering 'yes' to all the 'are you sure?' questions) at 4:30PM on a Friday.