What is postmortem

By • Coravin A project post-mortem, also called a project retrospective, is a process for evaluating the success (or failure) of a project's ability to meet business goals. A typical post-mortem meeting begins with a restatement of the • What worked well for the team? • What did not work well for the team? The facilitator may solicit quantitative data related to Post-mortems are generally conducted at the end of the project process, but are also useful at the end of each stage of a multi-phase project. The term post-mortem literally means "after death." In medicine, the term is used to describe an examination of a dead body in order to discover the cause of death. See also: Related Terms Mean time to detect (MTTD) is a measure of how long a problem exists in an IT deployment before the appropriate parties become ... The prototyping model is a systems development method in which a prototype is built, tested and then reworked as necessary until ... A Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) is a small business that is at least 51% owned and controlled by one or more socially and ... Dig Deeper on IT applications, infrastructure and operations • project management Cloud Computing • When prioritizing latency in AWS, evaluate the advantages and limitations of placement groups and how they fit the desired cloud ... • Enterprise Strategy Group's Paul Nashawaty breaks down the research firm's latest survey on the state of cloud-native application... • Surprised by your cloud bill? Exper...

Every company has their own name for the highest priority bugs. Priority one, emergencies, critical fixes or urgent fixes. There are software bugs that can end up crippling companies if they aren't dealt with rapidly. Not every software bug is as dramatic. But there are moments as a software developer where you have to resolve bugs as fast as you can. I recently learned about companies releasing publicly accessible post-mortems on their emergency bugs, and dove head first into them. What is a post-mortem? A post-mortem is where a team reflects on what went wrong with something they did, and documents it and/or amends their process to stop it happening again. Did a software release go bad? Let's break down a timeline of where things started to go wrong, and let's reflect how we could have caught it earlier. Here is the most important point: Post-mortems ARE NOT to assign blame. If we look at The Knight Capitol Group example, there should have been no way for one person to forget something and cripple the company. Where was the quality assurance process where someone checked the technician's work? Did they test this before going to production? Were there no automatic tests that ran before the deploy to production succeeded? You should be finding process failures not personal failures. Why should we do a post-mortem? So we can stop making the same mistake over and over! We provide more robust, bug free, stable software by learning how we failed in the past. Most importantly, ...

TRANSCRIPT Hi. I’m Well, JP, as its name suggests, postmortem planning is planning that’s done after death. Usually, it involves making decisions that optimize tax elections or change or optimize how assets pass in order to enhance and make the estate plan as efficient as possible. But I think postmortem planning is a bit of a misnomer because although it happens after death, some of the best postmortem planning is actually done before someone dies in the sense that, when an estate plan is created, contemplating that some of this post-death decision-making will be made, and builds in enough flexibility and contemplates what decisions might happen, and what elections might be made. You have a much more flexible and dynamic plan, and much great ability for postmortem planning to have great effect and be very powerful. So, it’s a little bit of a misnomer, but when we talk about postmortem planning, we essentially mean decisions and elections that are made after someone dies to implement their estate plan effectively. And it probably involves several different types of taxes. Tell me which taxes we’re talking about here. Estate Tax and Income Tax Decisions Yes. A lot of times, postmortem planning is looking at different elections and decisions that can be made. There are two basic categories of taxes that estates deal with: one is the estate tax itself or sometimes called the death tax, and the other are income taxes, both the decedent’s final income tax returns and also the e...

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Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure Written by John Lunney and Sue Lueder Edited by Gary O’ Connor The cost of failure is education. Devin Carraway As SREs, we work with large-scale, complex, distributed systems. We constantly enhance our services with new features and add new systems. Incidents and outages are inevitable given our scale and velocity of change. When an incident occurs, we fix the underlying issue, and services return to their normal operating conditions. Unless we have some formalized process of learning from these incidents in place, they may recur ad infinitum. Left unchecked, incidents can multiply in complexity or even cascade, overwhelming a system and its operators and ultimately impacting our users. Therefore, postmortems are an essential tool for SRE. The postmortem concept is well known in the technology industry Google’s Postmortem Philosophy The primary goals of writing a postmortem are to ensure that the incident is documented, that all contributing root cause(s) are well understood, and, especially, that effective preventive actions are put in place to reduce the likelihood and/or impact of recurrence. A detailed survey of root-cause analysis techniques is beyond the scope of this chapter (instead, see • User-visible downtime or degradation beyond a certain threshold • Data loss of any kind • On-call engineer intervention (release rollback, rerouting of traffic, etc.) • A resolution time above some threshold • A monitoring failure (which...