Incident Post-Mortem
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
A structured analysis written after an outage or operational failure to document timeline, impact, root causes, contributing factors, and follow-up actions. Strong incident post-mortems focus on systems and process rather than blame.
In plain English: A detailed review of what caused an outage and what should change afterward.
Example: "The incident post-mortem was useful because it explained not just the bug, but why detection lagged."