Settle A Severity Dispute With Impact, Not Rank
Resolve a severity disagreement by returning the conversation to explicit impact criteria.
Aisha AI Support lead pushing for a higher severity call The clash Aisha says customers are furious and wants Sev 1. The engineering manager says only one region is affected and insists on Sev 2. If the room settles this by authority, your severity framework becomes political. Return to explicit criteria Severity should be a shared decision language. The incident lead’s job is to pull the room back to impact, scope, consequence, and urgency. Common trap Treating louder conviction as better evidence. The room debates evidence, not hierarchy. Criteria create neutrality. Reset 01 Open the dispute Aisha says, "Customers are…
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