Oh this is definitely me describing a failure mode of postmortems, not an indictment of the process generally. It usually happens with well intentioned junior teams that lack experience/perspective.
I’m a firm believer in learning from mistakes, and making the right trade offs between reliability and velocity. Postmortems are a fantastic tool for facilitating this. As you point out though, the implementation matters and you need to be conscious of the cost/benefit of the recommendations that come out of the exercise.
I’m a firm believer in learning from mistakes, and making the right trade offs between reliability and velocity. Postmortems are a fantastic tool for facilitating this. As you point out though, the implementation matters and you need to be conscious of the cost/benefit of the recommendations that come out of the exercise.