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postmortem

Use when analyzing failures, outages, incidents, or negative outcomes, conducting blameless postmortems, documenting root causes with 5 Whys or fishbone diagrams, identifying corrective actions with owners and timelines, learning from near-misses, establishing prevention strategies, or when user mentions postmortem, incident review, failure analysis, RCA, lessons learned, or after-action review.

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# Postmortem

## Table of Contents
1. [Purpose](#purpose)
2. [When to Use](#when-to-use)
3. [What Is It?](#what-is-it)
4. [Workflow](#workflow)
5. [Common Patterns](#common-patterns)
6. [Guardrails](#guardrails)
7. [Quick Reference](#quick-reference)

## Purpose

Conduct blameless postmortems that transform failures into learning opportunities by documenting what happened, why it happened, impact quantification, root cause analysis, and actionable preventions with clear ownership.