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.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.It's not about pointing the finger or otherwise apportioning blame. It's about learning from mistakes and preventing them from happening again.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.