What is a Pre-Mortem Meeting?
A Pre-Mortem is a meeting before a project starts in which a team imagines what might happen to cause a project to fail. The team then works backward to create a plan to help prevent potential obstacles and increase the chances of success. This technique is recommended by behavioral psychologists and neuroscientists as an especially effective way of combatting cognitive bias and reducing project risk.
Learn More
- Performing a Project Pre-Mortem ~ on HBR
- [Video] Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman - Premortem to eliminate thinking biases.
- The Pre-Mortem: A Simple Technique To Save Any Project From Failure ~ by Tyler Tervooren
- Pre-mortems: How a Stripe Product Manager Predicts & Prevents Problems Before Launch
