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> Nothing bad has to go wrong, it's just called that. Correct. > Postmortem is the de facto name for blog posts summarising how things went after a, typically
by ronjouch 10y ago
> Nothing bad has to go wrong, it's just called that.
Correct.
> Postmortem is the de facto name for blog posts summarising how things went after a, typically, game development jam.
Not just this. Postmortem is a generic Project Management term. A process/meeting after the project's end (or the end of a part of the project) where collaborators discuss what went right/wrong is called a postmortem.
This is formalized by the bible of Project Management, the PMBOK, and Wikipedia has a nice article about the notion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem_documentation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem_documentation
Programmer's TL;DR: your scrum sprint retrospective and its "what went wrong" / "what could have been better" is a Postmortem.