Post Mortem Template

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Before getting started, please remember this is a blame-less meeting.

Let’s celebrate our successes working together and acknowledge any gaffes that we can learn from. We aren’t reviewing employee performance or assigning fault to particular individuals. Rather, we are reviewing the work that we accomplished and results that we can improve. Please bring your learning-focused, inquisitive, and positive best to this meeting. 

We succeed and fail as a team, let’s work together to be better together. 

Agenda

1. Project recap
   1. Scope
      1. Project Goals
      1. Scope creep or reduction acknowledgement
2. Outcome
   1. Was the goal met?
   1. Is the client happy? 
   1. Did we deliver on time? 
3. Team discussion
   1. Timeline of events
      1. When did we go into staging?
      1. When did we go live? 
      1. When did we have issues during the process?
4. Define the issues
   1. Contributing factors if any
   1. Milestone problems
   1. General discussion about problems during release prep and go-live
5. Impact of issues
   1. Outages?
   1. Working hours?
   1. General discussion
6. Corrective actions
   1. List actions to be taken
   1. Assign individuals to actions 

Project Recap

Summary of scope: Peanut butter & chocolate

Summary of outcome: A delicious and non-nutritious treat