Performing a Project Premortem
Klein's September 2007 Harvard Business Review piece introducing the premortem: before a project starts, the team is told it has failed spectacularly and generates the plausible reasons why. The method draws on 1989 research finding that this 'prospective hindsight' raises the ability to correctly identify reasons for an outcome by 30%.
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- 2007
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- Read it at hbr.org