# Dispelling the myths around incident response with Colette Alexander, Director of Engineering at HashiCorp

DevFeed: [Dispelling the myths around incident response with Colette Alexander, Director of Engineering at HashiCorp](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/dispelling-the-myths-around-incident-response-with-colette-alexander-director-of-engineering-at-hashicorp-12019.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://incident.io/blog/the-debrief-episode-twenty>)

Published: 2024-04-16T15:11:37Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The incident.io Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-incident-io-blog.md>)

Topics: [Incident response](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident-response.md>), [incident management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident-management.md>), [Process](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/process.md>)

Tags: [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [hashicorp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hashicorp.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-channel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-channel.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [incident-response](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-response.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [post-mortem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post-mortem.md>), [slack-incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack-incident.md>)

## AI overview

This episode of The Debrief examines common myths around incident response with Colette Alexander, HashiCorp's Director of Engineering. The discussion covers learning and process, questioning assumptions after incidents, and why documenting risk does not necessarily help manage it.

## Source excerpt

In this episode of The Debrief, we chat with Colette Alexander, Director of Engineering at HashiCorp, about common myths around incident response.