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postmortem is looking back after an event. That can be a security event/outage, it can also be the completion of a project (see: game studios often do postmorte
by runevault 1y ago
postmortem is looking back after an event. That can be a security event/outage, it can also be the completion of a project (see: game studios often do postmortems once their game is out to look back on what went wrong and right between preproduction, production, and post launch).
- gilgoomesh 1y agoIt's weird that we use "postmortem" in those cases since the word literally means "after death"; kind of implying something bad happened. I get that most of these postmortems are done after major development ceases, so it kind of is "dead" but still. Surely a "retrospective" would be a better word for a look back. It even means "look back.