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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.



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


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




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