When was the last time you looked at your organization's playbook for incident response? Is it up to date? Are you sure?

Playbooks are awesome, in principle. These step-by-step guides can help a new team member onboard quickly and handle incidents like a pro! But that assumes that they exist for your team and that they are up to date.

At the same time, every team has one or two superheroes who have been around long enough to have seen it all, and know exactly what to do when the situation gets rough. But what happens if they leave? Do they have time to train the next turnover of employees to take over?

Borrowing from the toolset of data science, we can turn every incident into an opportunity to define and refine our playbooks by turning them into notebooks.

Jupyter Notebooks are a mature technology that supports many programming languages that allow anyone to run the right code when they need it. They also give anyone the ability to easily update and version control Notebooks to make them easy to distribute and keep current.