A long long time ago, I participated in a post-mortem meeting, lately I'm not using this tool.
What are the benefits that you found conducting a post mortem meeting? Does it impact your upcoming projects as regular "lessons learned"? Saving Changes...
Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
^ :)
I think we can all agree the term ‘post-mortem’ has a strong negative connotation and overall pretty cruddy.
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1 reply by Mayte Mata Sivera
Jul 23, 2018 11:29 AM
Mayte Mata Sivera
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@Andrew, do you have a proposal for a new name? :)
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Vivek BhatiaPrincipal| The Bhatia GroupOakland, Ca, United States
I stopped doing them years ago. It was either a love fest or a complaint fest.
Now I do "future process modification" meetings. Don't tell me what went well or badly, tell me how you want to do things the next time that will be better. 100.00% of the people in 2 organizations loved that change in approach. Saving Changes...
The retrospective meeting does include a process for what we want to do in the future, whether the meeting is called a post-mortem, final retrospective etc. or not. But to know what we want to do, we also have to know what we don't want to do, so past references are necessary. For example, we may not want to do what went wrong in the past, in the future.
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1 reply by Vivek Bhatia
Jul 22, 2018 2:19 PM
Vivek Bhatia
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Sante, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there's no value. But as Andrew says, post mortem has a negative connotation. Branding it as something else has merit.
Let's call it project autopsy LOL Saving Changes...
Vivek BhatiaPrincipal| The Bhatia GroupOakland, Ca, United States
Jul 21, 2018 10:56 PM
Replying to Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
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The retrospective meeting does include a process for what we want to do in the future, whether the meeting is called a post-mortem, final retrospective etc. or not. But to know what we want to do, we also have to know what we don't want to do, so past references are necessary. For example, we may not want to do what went wrong in the past, in the future.
Sante, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there's no value. But as Andrew says, post mortem has a negative connotation. Branding it as something else has merit.
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1 reply by Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
Jul 22, 2018 7:27 PM
Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
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Perhaps we could use "Factum" instead of Mortem in keeping with the Latin tradition. Factum means "done". Or just keep it really simple like Post Project Improvement. Do we also need to rebrand "Kill Point" and "Murder Board"?
Sante, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there's no value. But as Andrew says, post mortem has a negative connotation. Branding it as something else has merit.
Perhaps we could use "Factum" instead of Mortem in keeping with the Latin tradition. Factum means "done". Or just keep it really simple like Post Project Improvement. Do we also need to rebrand "Kill Point" and "Murder Board"?
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2 replies by Mayte Mata Sivera and Vivek Bhatia
Jul 22, 2018 7:35 PM
Vivek Bhatia
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Yeah, I can't recall the exact wording I used, but it was something along the lines of "Process Modification", "Process Improvement", or something like your Post Project Improvement.
Jul 23, 2018 11:34 AM
Mayte Mata Sivera
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@Sante, I'm also not fan of "war room"... but not sure if we could re-brand all the terms that "we don't like" :)
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Vivek BhatiaPrincipal| The Bhatia GroupOakland, Ca, United States
Jul 22, 2018 7:27 PM
Replying to Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
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Perhaps we could use "Factum" instead of Mortem in keeping with the Latin tradition. Factum means "done". Or just keep it really simple like Post Project Improvement. Do we also need to rebrand "Kill Point" and "Murder Board"?
Yeah, I can't recall the exact wording I used, but it was something along the lines of "Process Modification", "Process Improvement", or something like your Post Project Improvement.
Yeah, I can't recall the exact wording I used, but it was something along the lines of "Process Modification", "Process Improvement", or something like your Post Project Improvement.
Ah ok, makes sense. Saving Changes...
Robert GermanInnovation Consultant| Better By DesignChicago, Il, United States
Let's call it the "continually striving to get better by engaging with the people who can help make it better" meeting. Too long? :)
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1 reply by Mayte Mata Sivera
Jul 23, 2018 11:34 AM
Mayte Mata Sivera
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@Rober, lol it doesn't fit in the subject of the meeting! :)
I used it one time, it is a double edge tool, it can open a lot of issues you do not need to discuss it by the end of the project with the client. If the client is mature and positive go for it.
@Kevin, thank you for your comments. Did you always conduct with the client? or also with the team internally? Saving Changes...
