Post-incident review
The structured document written after a data incident's active response has ended, reconstructing what happened, identifying every contributing factor, crediting what worked, and converting the findings into checkable, owned, dated action items intended to permanently close the gaps the incident revealed.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Data Governance: The Data Chair.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
The structured document written after a data incident's active response has ended, reconstructing what happened, identifying every contributing factor, crediting what worked, and converting the findings into checkable, owned, dated action items intended to permanently close the gaps the incident revealed.
A structured review conducted after an incident is resolved, examining what happened, how it was classified and handled, and what should change. Owned in depth by Topic 7.8's forensics treatment. (see Topic 7.8)
The Module 11 artifact produced after a data incident, written in the blameless format this topic's glossary connects to the open decisions log's own honesty requirement; both depend on the same willingness to record uncomfortable specifics rather than a flattering summary.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- Incident Severity · Rollout, Monitoring, and Incident Response, Agentic AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- The post-incident review: fixing the estate, not blaming the intern · Data Incidents, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
- Your successor's briefing: the estate documented so command can transfer · The Frontier Discipline, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.