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The Pre-Mortem: Imagining Failure Before It Happens
Travel to the future where your plan failed — then work backwards
Your plan looks perfect — what if you assumed it will fail?
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A pre-mortem is a planning technique where you assume your project has already failed and ask why.
Psychologist Gary Klein developed it to counteract overconfidence and groupthink before launch.
Teams that run pre-mortems catch problems early and build more resilient plans.
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