Daily Term: Post-Mortem

Post-Mortem

A Post-Mortem is a detailed analysis conducted after an incident (e.g., a service outage) to understand its root cause, impact, and resolution, with the goal of preventing recurrence. For example, after a database failure, a team might document the cause (e.g., a misconfiguration), timeline, and lessons learned (e.g., adding automated checks). Post-mortems foster learning and improvement but require a blame-free culture to encourage honest reporting.

Date: 2025-09-16