Most launch retros are theatre. Three slides, polite credit, one vague "we should start earlier next time," and the same mistakes show up next quarter. A useful post-mortem — the kind worth running — is a structured conversation that produces decisions, not feelings. This template is for that meeting.
A post-mortem here means a 60-minute session held two-to-four weeks after launch, with the people who actually shipped the work in the room. Not the steering committee. The people who wrote the copy, briefed the AEs, and watched the dashboards on day one.
When to run it
Fill it out
Launch Post-Mortem
Four questions. Answer them in the room, in writing, before the meeting ends. The fifth field is the only thing that matters next quarter.
Before you close the meeting
Walk-out checklist
The template is the easy part. The discipline is reading last quarter's document at the start of the next launch's kickoff. If nobody opens it, the post-mortem was theatre after all.
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Ship launches that land a point of view — not just a feature list.
Launch Playbook drafts your announcement copy, FAQ, and battle-card patch from your Strategic Context the moment you're ready to ship. Evidence-based, grounded in your positioning, built to be sent — not just presented.
- ✓Drafts announcement, FAQ, and battle-card patch
- ✓Grounded in your positioning, not a generic template
- ✓Ready to ship in the time it takes to brief an agency