When an incident becomes a crisis
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In this lesson
recognize when a normal incident needs crisis leadership.
Planned topics
- Signals: many teams affected, customer or revenue impact, external parties, regulators, or media attention.
- A crisis needs more roles: incident commander, communications lead, executive liaison.
- Declare it early; stand down easily.
- The Staff engineer's role is to lead and coordinate, not to fix every part.
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Demonstration
a severity ladder with criteria for "crisis" and the roles activated at each level.
Check your understanding
Why declare a crisis early?
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Coordination takes time to set up; late declaration wastes the first hour.
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