Rollback drills without staging parity fairy tales

Staging parity is aspirational. Rollback plans should assume partial information and tired humans.

Kubernetes Day-Two Skills runs a tabletop where one participant hides a config diff until minute ten. Groups discover their runbooks skip communication steps.

We encourage writing who gets paged, who updates status page copy, and who owns the decision to roll forward versus back — before the incident.

Practice quarterly; short drills beat perfect documentation nobody rehearsed.