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A post-mortem should never be about placing blame on individuals, it should be about identifying flaws in a system or a process.

There are places where post-mortems can turn into blame games, but in my experience such things are counter-productive to actually solving problems. Luckily, there are plenty of engineering organizations that do not make this mistake! :)




The easiest way to avoid that is to have well structured post-mortem process, and post-mortem everything. Successful and unsuccessful releases.


We need to go from postmortem to postpartum!




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