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Post mortem means that your project is dead...
by jarnix 13y ago
Post mortem means that your project is dead...
- JohnMunsch 13y agoThat project is finished. The other fellow has some PHP work to do to wire up my work, but I will probably not return to it myself unless he needs something else.
- envex 13y agoCouldn't it also be an explanation after something has happened?
- JohnMunsch 13y agoThat was the sense in which I was using it. Game Developer magazine always used to have a section where they had developers do a "post mortem" on projects they had finished and they were very instructive on what had gone well/poorly.
- crusso 13y agoOnly if you didn't understand conventional use of the term. Since no one really speaks Latin anymore, the conventional use of the term is all that matters. If a speaker uses a term and the audience understands it, whipping out your Latin dictionary is pointlessly pedantic.
- GrinningFool 13y agoI think your anti-pedanticism is excessively pedantic. Conventional use of the term does indicate an analysis of events after something has come to an end - if not necessarily death. A company, a project, an incident response. I'm with GP on this one. Based on the title, I thought that the project had in some way come to completion and this was an after-the-fact analysis of cause, effect, and resulting behaviors. As you said, the conventional use is what matters - and the author here has used the term in a non-conventional sense. Edit: another read through after seeing the author's comment below. The project did, in fact, come to an end - though that wasn't really clear. Given the content I think the "retrospective" is a better fit. The author used this in the content of the entry itself.