[runevault]

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]

It'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.

[simonask]

It gets even better. Some companies use "mid-mortems", which are evaluation and reflection processes in the middle of a project...

[meepmorp]

sounds like an appropriate way to talk about death march projects, tbh