Postmortem
topic on 2 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
6 statements about Postmortem, every show
Levchin: Postmortems require a single directly responsible individual
“You have to have a directly responsible individual for authoring and presenting the postmortem.”
Doshi: Running a proper premortem prevents ugly postmortems
“If you do a premortem right, you will not have to do an ugly postmortem. You might still do a postmortem to learn, but odds are very high that it is not going to be a bad postmortem.”
Tarica: Proactive deal reviews eliminate the need for lost-deal post-mortems
“If both of these motions are done well, deal reviews and these large deal review meetings at the management level, and they're done well, and they're done consistently. There's almost not a need for a larger postmortem on the deal as when you lose a deal, beca…”
Elena Verna: Premortems are far more effective than postmortems for growth teams
“I learned from Fareed, who was director of growth at Slack, that premortems are far more effective than postmortems.”
Ravasio: Scheduled postmortems enable solution-focused thinking during active crises
“And I think having the postmortem as a pressure release valve and as a learning device that you know is coming later really encourages that kind of thinking in the moment.”
Postmortems on successful projects are often better than on failed ones
“And in fact, postmortems for good projects are often better than bad projects, because on a good project, there's no even tension about, like, blame or anything like that. And people can really open up and say, what could have made this even better?”