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		ethbr0 on July 6, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why do I struggle to follow corporate meet... One of the best planning exercises I've heard is asking every attendee to think of a way the suggested plan could go awry. The genius is that failure scenarios are, by definition, detail-oriented. Consequently, it's an easy bridge into the discussing the details that actually matter (i.e. those that could threaten the entire plan).

benji-york on July 6, 2022 | [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-mortem

121789 on July 7, 2022 | [–]

Pre-mortems. In general I haven’t found them that useful as the teams/leads I’ve worked with generally have the risks covered already

ethbr0 on July 7, 2022 | [–]

They're more useful, the more disfunctional and rose colored glasses the org has.

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