Running Reliability Engineering Workshops for More Resilient Teams
Measuring knowledge inside an organization is always tricky. Where does critical business and application expertise actually live? How resilient are your teams when someone is missing? As an SRE or manager, have you ever caught yourself thinking: “I just hope nothing goes wrong while X is on vacation…”
Reliability isn’t just about tools and systems. It’s also about people, practice, and confidence. At Steadybit, we believe that facing complexity and uncovering weaknesses is what makes teams stronger and more resilient. You shouldn’t have to wait for incidents to occur to start learning and practicing together as a team.
Guides for Running Reliability Engineering Workshops
We’ve put together a set of simple, hands-on workshops you can run in a safe chaos engineering environment with Steadybit. Sure, you could dive straight into a full-blown GameDay to explore human reliability, but that’s a big lift. Starting small with workshops is a much easier (and smarter) way to get going.
The Mob Troubleshooting Workshop
In most teams, there are always a few people who jump in first during incidents — quicker to diagnose, more eager to troubleshoot. The risk? If that “go-to savior” is on vacation or out sick, the rest of the team can feel lost. Juniors, in particular, may hesitate to speak up, especially if they struggle with impostor syndrome.
The Mob Troubleshoot Workshop is a safe way to balance the scales: it builds confidence, shares practices, and ensures troubleshooting isn’t limited to just a few voices. Running it regularly, especially when things are too quiet on the incident front, keeps everyone sharp and ready.
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Testing Knowledge with a Quiz Workshop
Sometimes resolving an incident quickly isn’t about dashboards or logs at all. It’s simply about knowing who to ask. But ownership, and especially knowing who owns what, is often a tricky subject. So why not turn it into a fun quiz game to test and improve your team’s ownership awareness?
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Pairing Off for the Reliability Buddy Workshop
Practicing reliability can also be an excellent entry point for newcomers. Chaos experiments are highly adaptable, and their difficulty can easily be adjusted to match someone’s experience level. Imagine a short 30-minute workshop run 1-on-1: pairing a new team member with one of the most knowledgeable engineers on the team.
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Bringing Relevant Reliability Workshops to Your Team
Maybe you’ve read this far and thought: “But we’re only two people in the team… or even just me!” No problem. Whether you’re alone or part of a 30-person squad, you can still benefit from these workshops. With our new Steadybit MCP, you can simply ask for a scenario to kick things off:
“I’m using Steadybit and want to run the following workshop. Please generate an experiment to begin with: [Paste the targeted workshop].”
The result : https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/7b440373-959b-4c29-872c-ea962e9c5776
Practicing reliability is always a valuable learning experience — and at Steadybit, we stand by that commitment. 💡