# Reading

A curated list of books, talks, and official resources on incident response and crisis management, recommended as further study for this guide.

This is a collection of additional reading on the topic of incident response that we've found useful.

## Books

* [Incident Management for Operations](https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781491917619/) (Rob Schnepp, Ron Vidal, Chris Hawley)
* [Incident Response](https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/~/0596001304/) (Kenneth R. van Wyk, Richard Forno)
* [The Checklist Manifesto](http://atulgawande.com/book/the-checklist-manifesto/) (Atul Gawande)
* [The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error](https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error/dp/0754648265) (Sidney Dekker)
* [Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies](https://www.amazon.com/Normal-Accidents-Living-High-Risk-Technologies/dp/0691004129) (Charles Perrow)
* [Site Reliability Engineering](https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/) (Google)
* [IT Disaster Response: Lessons Learned in the Field](https://www.amazon.com/Disaster-Response-Lessons-Learned-Field/dp/1484221834) (Greg D. Moore)

## Documents

* [Debriefing Facilitation Guide](https://extfiles.etsy.com/DebriefingFacilitationGuide.pdf) (Etsy)

## Talks

* [Every Minute Counts: Leading Heroku's Incident Response](https://www.heavybit.com/library/video/every-minute-counts-coordinating-herokus-incident-response/) (Blake Gentry)
* [Three Analytical Traps in Accident Investigation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqaFT-0cY7U) (Dr. Johan Bergström)

## Official Resources

* [US National Incident Management System (NIMS)](https://www.fema.gov/national-incident-management-system) (FEMA)
* [UK Government Fire and Rescue Manual - Incident Command](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/7643/incidentcommand.pdf) (UK.GOV)
* [New Zealand Coordinated Incident Management System (CIMS)](https://www.civildefence.govt.nz/resources/coordinated-incident-management-system-cims-third-edition/) (NZCDEM)

## Other Useful Resources

* [Informed's NIMS Incident Command System Field Guide](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1284038408) (Michael J. Ward)
* [Linkedin's School Of SRE](https://linkedin.github.io/school-of-sre/) (LinkedIn)