Incident management for high-velocity teams
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Incident communication templates and examples
Communication templates are one of the most helpful tools during an incident. In the heat of a service outage, the response team is under a lot of pressure and every second counts. Sitting down to a blank page to figure out how to update customers is a lot harder than it seems. We recommend using some boilerplate language to get started.
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