# Project Post-Mortem

A blameless post-mortem: what we planned, what happened, the timeline, what went well and badly, root causes, and lessons.

A project post-mortem deck turns a finished project into lessons: the plan versus what happened, a timeline of key events, what went well, what went wrong and why, the root causes, and the changes the organisation commits to for next time. This template is a complete blameless post-mortem of a fictional project.

- Industry: Project Management
- Category: Post-Mortem
- Slides: 12
- Theme: carbon
- Price: free to use and edit

## Best for

- Project managers closing a project
- Engineering teams after an incident or launch
- Leaders reviewing a project that overran

## Slide structure

1. Learning from the Atlas Release Cycle
2. We Learn from Failures Without Assigning Blame
3. 5 Weeks
4. Key Events in the Atlas Lifecycle
5. Successes Despite the Schedule Slip
6. Systemic Failures We Encountered
7. Spending Peaked as Rework Intensive Tasks Multiplied
8. Root Cause: Why We Missed the Deadline
9. What We Would Do Differently Next Time
10. Concrete Commitments to the Team
11. Sustaining Our Strengths and Open Questions
12. Thank You for the Hard Work on Atlas

## Related templates

- [Team Retrospective](https://slideso.com/templates/people/team-retrospective)
- [Project Status Report](https://slideso.com/templates/project-management/project-status-report)
- [Team Retrospective](https://slideso.com/templates/people/team-retrospective)

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