My boss decided to add a “person to blame” field to every bug report
One tradition I really appreciate at Google is the post-mortem. Any serious outage or bug will be followed by a detailed post-mortem detailing a timeline of what went wrong and why.<p>Sometimes this will go as far as establishing a "war room", possibly for weeks, dragging in people from a number of different areas to address a particular issue.<p>It's not about pointing the finger or otherwise apportioning blame. It's about learning from mistakes and preventing them from happening again.<p>That being said, I've worked at other places where shame is attempted to be used in such situations (which is what this is). In my experience it just fosters a hostile environment.