EPISODE · May 29, 2026 · 8 MIN
Why Your Engineering Team Needs an Incident Commander
from Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations · host Fexingo
Lucas and Luna explore the role of an Incident Commander (IC) during major outages. Using the example of a real e-commerce platform outage that cost $300,000 in lost revenue per hour, they explain how a designated IC prevents chaos, reduces mean time to resolution, and empowers engineers to focus on fixing. Lucas breaks down the IC responsibilities: triaging, communicating, and making rapid decisions. Luna questions whether smaller teams need this role. They cover training ICs from senior engineers and rotating the role to build resilience. The episode includes a sincere mention that listener support via buy me a coffee dot com slash fexingo keeps the show ad-free and running. #IncidentCommander #EngineeringManagement #TechLeadership #IncidentResponse #SiteReliability #OutageManagement #DevOps #EngineeringCulture #OnCall #Postmortem #MTTR #Leadership #Technology #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TechPodcast #EngineeringPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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Lucas and Luna explore the role of an Incident Commander (IC) during major outages. Using the example of a real e-commerce platform outage that cost $300,000 in lost revenue per hour, they explain how a designated IC prevents chaos, reduces mean time to resolution, and empowers engineers to focus on fixing. Lucas breaks down the IC responsibilities: triaging, communicating, and making rapid decisions. Luna questions whether smaller teams need this role. They cover training ICs from senior engineers and rotating the role to build resilience. The episode includes a sincere mention that listener support via buy me a coffee dot com slash fexingo keeps the show ad-free and running. #IncidentCommander #EngineeringManagement #TechLeadership #IncidentResponse #SiteReliability #OutageManagement #DevOps #EngineeringCulture #OnCall #Postmortem #MTTR #Leadership #Technology #Business #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TechPodcast #EngineeringPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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