Before Starting, Imagine This Already Failed — Then Ask Why
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The pre-mortem technique is simple: before you begin, assume the project has already failed. Now work backwards — what went wrong? This exercise bypasses the optimism bias that blinds us during planning and surfaces risks we'd otherwise ignore. It's not pessimism; it's preparing for reality. Teams that run pre-mortems consistently catch problems that post-mortems would find too late.
The point
Assume the project has already failed and work backwards to find the blind spots optimism hides.
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