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by joshuamorton 1199 days ago
A postmortem is, in most cases, really just a formal process to ensure everyone (including leadership) knows what went wrong, and how to prevent the issue from happening again, with some associated ceremony about like actually keeping track of the relevant action items to prevent recurrence of the issue.

It's pretty rare that you run into an issue that can't reoccur, or have similarly shaped reoccurrences.