Kill It with Fire

postmortems are not specific to failure. If your modernization plan includes modeling your approach after another successful project, consider doing a postmortem on that project’s success instead. Remember that we tend to think of failure as bad luck and success as skill. We do postmortems on failure because we’re likely to see them as complex scenarios with a variety of contributing factors. We assume that success happens for simple, straightforward reasons. In reality, success is no more or less complex than failure. You should use the same methodology to learn from success that you use to learn from failure.