I was just going to pass by this article, but it stuck in my head, and then I started wondering what would have happened if I had done that at the start of some of my projects or programs, and then I realized there was something there that I couldn't just pass by. The idea is to have a 'pre-mortem' that will "leverage a psychological technique called 'prospective hindsight' – imagining that the transformation had already failed, and walking backwards from there to investigate what led to the failure." This isn't the same as a risk analysis; "in a pre-mortem we assume that the project has failed, and the question is what did go wrong. The difference might appear subtle, but the change in mindset is actually profound." The article describes in detail how to prepare for and run a pre-mortem. Image: MAA1.
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