Office language
Pre-mortem
Imagining, before a project starts, that it has failed, and working out why, so you can prevent it.
You'll hear it as
Let's run a pre-mortem: it's six months from now and the launch flopped. What happened?
Why it matters to you.
It makes it safe to raise doubts that people would otherwise keep to themselves.
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