# Further Reading

A curated reading list on blameless culture, incident analysis techniques, and the mechanics of running postmortems and retrospectives.

![Futher Reading and Resources](/images/guides/postmortem-best-practices/Postmortems-Resources.webp)

## Creating a Blameless Culture
### Books
* [The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error](https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error/dp/0754648265) (Sidney Dekker)
* [Crucial Accountability](https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Accountability-Resolving-Expectations-Commitments/dp/0071829318) (Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, David Maxfield)

### Articles
* [Blame. Language. Sharing.](http://fractio.nl/2015/10/30/blame-language-sharing/) (Lindsay Holmwood)

### Talks
* "[Three analytical traps in accident investigation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqaFT-0cY7U)" (Johan Bergstrom)
* "[Two views on Human Error](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHeukoWWtQ8)" (Johan Bergstrom)
* [Advanced PostMortem Fu and Human Error 101 (Velocity 2011)](http://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/advanced-postmortem-fu-and-human-error-101-velocity-2011) (John Allspaw)

## How to Analyze Incidents
### Articles
* [The Infinite Hows](https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-infinite-hows) (John Allspaw)

### Documents
* [Postmortem Action Items: Plan the Work and Work the Plan](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_spring17_09_lunney.pdf) (John Lunney, Sue Lueder, and Betsy Beyer)

## Process and Mechanics of Postmortems and Retrospectives
* [The Agile Retrospective Wiki](http://retrospectivewiki.org/index.php?title=Agile_Retrospective_Resource_Wiki)