Postmortems Glossary

Browse 3 postmortems terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

3 Postmortems Terms

Code Autopsy: A detailed examination of code after a failure, incident, or abandoned project to understand what went wrong. In engineering slang, code autopsy suggests a mix...
Reenactment: A repeated version of a past mistake, incident, or operational drama, often with the depressing sense that the lessons were available but not retained. In...
Root Cause: The underlying reason a problem occurred, beyond the immediate symptom that first drew attention. In incident work, finding root cause matters because treating...