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Note: postmortem has a more dire meaning in non-tech circles (literally means "after death"). You want to say retrospective instead. I know it's a difference in
by Beltiras 5y ago
Note: postmortem has a more dire meaning in non-tech circles (literally means "after death"). You want to say retrospective instead. I know it's a difference in culture.
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- remram 5y agoI think people used to publish "postmortems" for projects that were literally over, either because they failed or because they were published long ago. At some point people started using it for outages, then security issues too. I agree that the term is inadequate, I can just see how we got here.