This is a YAML representation of the Incident Command System (ICS) states. These were used at Heroku to build their ICS, watch more here: http://www.heavybit.com/library/video/2014-06-17-blake-gentry

ics-states.yml

---
state: 0
name: "State 0"
description: "Everything Healthy"
color: green
metrics:
  - blah1
  - blah2
  - blah3
  - blah4
  - blah5
enabled: true
organization:
  - IC: name here
  - OSC: name here
  - ESC: name here
  - SCS: name here
transition: [1]
---
state: 1
name: "State 1"
description: "Possible Incident"
color: yellow
metrics:
  - blah1
  - blah2
  - blah3
  - blah4
  - blah5
enabled: false
organization:
  - IC: name here
  - OSC: name here
  - ESC: name here
  - SCS: name here
transition: [0,2,3]
---
state: 2
name: "State 2"
description: "Incident"
color: orange
metrics:
  - blah1
  - blah2
  - blah3
  - blah4
  - blah5
enabled: false
organization:
  - IC: name here
  - OSC: name here
  - ESC: name here
  - CSC: name here
transition: [0,3]
---
state: 3 
name: "State 3"
description: "Major Incident"
color: red
metrics:
  - blah1
  - blah2
  - blah3
  - blah4
  - blah5
enabled: false
organization:
  - IC: name here
  - OSC: name here
  - ESC: name here
  - CSC: name here
transition: [2]

I am working on some ideas around building a dashboard to allow Incident Commanders (in technical organizations) to more easily manage an Incident as it moves through the state machine. This is a data representation of those states and the information needed for each. I've extended the model I helped work on at Heroku to automatically fill each Section Chief. The idea being that someone is automatically in charge of those organizations and are transitioned roles just like the IC. Each Section Chief is then in charge of organizing their respective organizations to address the incident. Note, just like the Incident Commander role, these are filled by the first responders automatically until later transitioned to another individual.

There is a lot of background that I am not covering, but that explains more of the data above.

Oh, and I forgot the abbreviations:

• Operations Section Chief
• Engineering Section Chief
• Communications Section Chief