postmortem

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It's great to see a postmortem with this level of detail, fairly quickly.

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Quick take

discussion of an event after it has occurred

Meaning at a glance

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noun

discussion of an event after it has occurred

noun

an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease

adjective

occurring or done after death; "postmortem changes"; "a postmortem examination to determine cause of death"; "postmortal wounds"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for postmortem.

noun

discussion of an event after it has occurred

noun

an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease

See also: autopsy, necropsy, post-mortem, PM

adjective

occurring or done after death; "postmortem changes"; "a postmortem examination to determine cause of death"; "postmortal wounds"

adjective

after death or after an event; "a postmortem examination to determine the cause of death"; "the postmortem discussion of the President's TV address"

Example sentences

It's great to see a postmortem with this level of detail, fairly quickly.

I look forward to his postmortem after this project is finished.

I would be furious about Cloudflare writing a details-thin "postmortem," headlining it as a postmortem, analyzing my initial statement to customers in it, then getting it on HN before DNS caches are even cold from the incident itself.

You seem to be thinking "He was so good, he even managed to get me to buy this stuff", but the truth may unfortunately just as well be "Gee, I fall for this kind of stuff much more easily than I would have liked/thought".Doing a postmortem of such a sales-pitch as a target yourself seems to be loaded with subjectivity problems.