Guided session · Planning · About 15 minutes
The Pre-mortem
A post-mortem explains why a project failed after the failure. A pre-mortem asks the same question while there is still time to act on the answer. This session teaches the method, walks you through a pre-mortem on your own plan, and ends with a page that lists the risks, a warning sign for each serious one and the person who will watch for that sign.
The research behind this session
Sources
- The pre-mortem. Klein, G. (2007). “Performing a project premortem.” Harvard Business Review, 85(9), 18–19.
- Prospective hindsight. Mitchell, D. J., Russo, J. E. and Pennington, N. (1989). “Back to the future: temporal perspective in the explanation of events.” Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2(1), 25–38.
- Testing the pre-mortem. Veinott, B., Klein, G. A. and Wiggins, S. (2010). “Evaluating the effectiveness of the PreMortem technique on plan confidence.” Proceedings of the 7th International ISCRAM Conference.
- The planning fallacy. Buehler, R., Griffin, D. and Ross, M. (1994). “Exploring the ‘planning fallacy’: why people underestimate their task completion times.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67(3), 366–381.
- Deciding the response in advance. Gollwitzer, P. M. and Sheeran, P. (2006). “Implementation intentions and goal achievement: a meta-analysis of effects and processes.” Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 69–119.
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