A pre-mortem imagines a project has already failed and works backward to surface risks before they happen, countering overconfidence and groupthink. This is the Pre-Mortem from the Stratenity Library, a governed consulting deliverable that is already built for you. It gives your team the full working method for pre-mortem, and it walks through everything from prospective hindsight: the psychology to from failure cause to mitigation. Every asset ships with a worked client example, a clear RACI, defined KPIs, and governance you can defend, so your team adapts it to a live client engagement instead of starting from a blank page.
What this asset covers
This is a preview of the full deliverable. Inside the Stratenity Library, this asset walks a consultant through the complete method, section by section, with a worked client example threaded throughout.
- Why Imagine Failure Before You Start
- The Pre-Mortem Technique in Overview
- Prospective Hindsight: the Psychology
- Running the Session
- Generating Failure Causes
- Clustering and Prioritising the Risks
- From Failure Cause to Mitigation
- Assigning Owners and Trigger Signals
- Pre-Mortem versus Risk Register versus Post-Mortem
- Overcoming Optimism and Groupthink
- Timing It in the Project Lifecycle
- Applying a Pre-Mortem to a Real Launch
- Common Pitfalls and the Deliverable Pack
Review, download, and activate in 48 hours
Stratenity Library subscribers can review this asset in full, download it, and activate it into a governed, client-ready deliverable in 48 hours rather than weeks. Each asset ships with a worked client example, a clear RACI, defined KPIs, and governance you can defend.
Read the full asset on the Stratenity Library › Not a member yet? Start a free trial to unlock and activate it, or sign in if you already have an account.