What Is A Premortem

A premortem is a project management strategy in which a project team imagines that a project has failed, and then works backward to determine what potentially could lead to that failure. The technique breaks group-think by facilitating a positive discussion on threats, increasing the likelihood that the main threats are identified. It is unlike a typical ‘critique’ session because instead of asking what might go wrong, the base assumption is that things have gone wrong and thus results in more broad-reaching considerations of project risk.

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