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pre-mortem
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Puts you three years forward, tells you the position lost 70 percent, and asks you to explain why. The past tense is the technique: asked prospectively people list risks, asked retrospectively people explain.
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Reach for it when
- Before decision-memo on anything of size
- Whenever the research has produced no discomfort
- When you cannot see how this fails
- Needs first
- A thesis and a draft of the kill criteria.
- Leaves behind
- Five failure paths with early warning signs, the paths that have no warning sign, and the sentence naming what you are actually betting on.
- Takes about
- Twenty-five minutes.
- Will not
- Reassure you. If the output leaves you more comfortable, it was done wrong.
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