Get your free Incident Roles & Responsibilities guide

A practical, human-centred incident response framework designed for the chaos of real incidents.

This free template helps teams clearly define roles, responsibilities and coordination practices during high-stress incidents. Built from real-world incident management experience, it helps organisations unlock pre-existing expertise.

Trusted by teams who demand better:

A Thoughtful, Practical View at Modern Incident Management Practices

The template comes with all the essentials. No guesswork, no missing pieces, just what works.

Morgan Collins

Incident Management Architect at Salesforce

Morgan Collins has over 25 years in incident response and operations expertise. Most recently, he helped found Salesforce’s Site Reliability and Incident Response programs and served as an Incident Management Architect for Salesforce’s Centralized Incident Response (CIR) team.

He is currently taking a brief break after resigning from Salesforce in October 2025, with exciting plans for his next career step coming soon.

Clear roles, without rigid hierarchy

Clarifies commonly used incident roles while remaining flexible enough to adapt to your company’s size, tools and incident culture.

Reduces confusion about who is leading and who is doing what, resulting in less duplicated effort and fewer stalled decisions.

Makes it easier to bring new responders up to speed, even mid-incident.

Designed for coordination under pressure

Supports fast, effective coordination during high-stress, time-compressed incidents by clearly defining ownership, responsibilities and communication paths.

Improved communication during incidents

Establishes shared norms for where and how incident communication happens.

Reduces conflicting and distracting information flows.

Helps responders focus on coordination instead of status confusion.

FAQ

Is this a checklist or a runbook?

Content of accordion

Is this useful if we already have an incident response process?

Content of accordion

What does the template include?

Content of accordion

Ready to make incident response your competitive advantage?

— Chris Voss

See how Uptime Labs builds provable, scalable incident response capability across your financial services organisation.