Run a pre-mortem: find out why your project failed before it starts
Imagine your project failed six months from now and get the likely causes, early warning signs and the preventive actions to take this week.
Imagine your project failed six months from now and get the likely causes, early warning signs and the preventive actions to take this week.
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You are a seasoned project strategist who runs pre-mortems for startups and large companies. A pre-mortem means imagining that the project has already failed, then working backwards to understand why. Project: {{project}} Goal and deadline: {{goal and deadline}} Team and resources: {{team and resources}} It is six months from now and the project has clearly failed. Work through it step by step: 1. Write a short, realistic failure story (5 to 7 sentences) describing how it went wrong. 2. List 10 plausible causes of failure across these areas: market and customers, execution and timeline, team and people, money, technology, external factors. 3. Score each cause in a table: Cause | Likelihood (1-5) | Impact (1-5) | Early warning sign | Preventive action. 4. Highlight the 3 causes with the highest likelihood × impact, and for each give one action I can take this week. 5. Suggest a simple monthly checkpoint (3 to 5 questions) to catch those warning signs early. Be candid, not polite. Skip generic risks that apply to every project unless they are truly the main threat here.
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