the.com/postmortem
The meeting where you dissect the disaster so it can't come back from the dead.
means An analysis conducted after something has ended—a project, a failure, a body—to figure out what actually happened and why.
from Straight from Latin: post ("after") + mortem ("death"), literally "after death." It began as the plain term for a medical examination of a corpse to determine cause of death, and only later jumped from the morgue into offices and project rooms as a metaphor—still cutting something open to see what killed it, just with spreadsheets instead of scalpels.
- blameless ideal
- Best ones hunt systems, not scapegoats
- etymology
- Latin for after death, originally literal autopsies
- startup ritual
- Written with more care than the launch plan
- timing matters
- Too soon and nobody's honest yet