Pre-Mortem: “Technically” Working Backwards

Pre-Mortem: Working BackwardsPhoto by Monty Allen on UnsplashWhat is a pre-mortem?Pre-mortem is a strategy in which a team imagines that a project has failed, and then works backward to determine what potentially could lead to the failure of a project. The term was coined by cognitive researcher Gary Klein.Unlike a post-mortem or root-cause analysis (RCA) that is performed after things have failed, a pre-mortem is done before the start of the project. It uses “prospective hindsight” to help make...

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