What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
The premortem approach helps project teams mitigate risk by imagining worst-case scenarios
- Publication:
- Quality Progress
- Date:
- January 2025
- Issue:
- Volume 58 Issue 1
- Pages:
- pp. 14-21
- Author(s):
- Ramu, Govind
Abstract
Many organizations use a postmortem to understand why a failure occurred and prevent it from recurring. But what if there was a way to prevent the problem from happening in the first place? The premortem approach has teams imagine the worst-case scenario for a project to help identify risks at the outset. Follow the premortem toolkit to help you proactively identify and mitigate project risks.
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