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Postmortem

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/em -postmortem — Honest Analysis of What Went Wrong

Purpose

To facilitate honest and rigorous analysis of failures, extracting maximum learning value to prevent recurrence and improve systems, moving beyond blame and vague action items.

Features

  • Structured post-mortem framework
  • Detailed guidance on 5 Whys and root cause analysis
  • Distinguishes contributing factors from root causes
  • Identifies ignored warning signs
  • Defines control boundaries (in vs. out of control)
  • Generates a specific change register with owners and due dates
  • Includes a verification date for follow-up

Use Cases

  • Analyzing failed deals or missed revenue targets
  • Investigating product feature failures
  • Understanding why a project missed a deadline
  • Evaluating unsuccessful hiring decisions

Non-Goals

  • Assigning blame to individuals
  • Creating vague, non-specific action items
  • Performing a superficial whitewash of failures

Compliance

  • info:GDPRThe skill operates on user-provided text, which may contain personal data. While it doesn't submit this data externally, caution should be exercised regarding the privacy of the input.

Installation

First, add the marketplace

/plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills
/plugin install executive-mentor@claude-code-skills

Quality Score

Verified
98 /100
Analyzed about 21 hours ago

Trust Signals

Last commitabout 23 hours ago
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LicenseMIT
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