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What is the difference between the two? I tried searching for 'post mortem vs incident analysis' but couldn't find anything.

• gojomo 6y ago
  Some org might have decreed internal fine distinctions, but in common parlance, both terms are used for the same kind of after-event writeups.
• ph0rque 6y ago
  Well, post mortem means "after death" in Latin. So it would seem the difference is, one can recover from an incident...
  • gregoda 6y ago
    I'd tend to think that 'post-mortem' translates (in common usage) more accurately as 'after termination' -- a process performed at the completion of some other process. It's really a good idea to do post-mortems on successes as well as failures.
• papito 6y ago
  Post-mortem is just a gruesome term.