User:RobLa-WMF/Retrospectives

This is a wikification of T123753

Definitions for each of these as I understand them: I've been avoiding the postmortem analogy because ... ewww. ;-) I've also been guilty of using "retrospective" and "incident report" interchangeably.
 * "Incident report" - this is the longstanding process that Ops has after downtime or other problematic event on the Wikimedia cluster
 * "Retrospective" - a meeting often used by teams involved in some form of agile software development, typically held at the end of a project, a sprint, or an iteration of some variety.
 * "Postmortem" - frequently used by way of analogy, as of this writing, this word redirects to "autopsy" on enwiki (as does "Post-mortem"). However, Post-mortem (disambiguation) offers somewhat more helpful content, but I've usually heard "postmortem" used to describe "let's analyze what happened after something went very wrong" (like an "incident report") rather than generically "an after project assessment".
 * "Hotwash" - a nicer analogy than postmortem, and a term that is also in pretty widespread use. Much of my approach to running retrospective meetings comes from someone who prefers to call them "hot washes".

Even more confusing, there's a matrix here: