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Pre-Mortem

Before starting, imagine the project has failed: collect the reasons, pick the most likely ones, agree on countermeasures.

by FlowplanVersion 112 Nov 2026

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Pre-mortem

A way to speak about risks openly before it is too late.

Imagine failure: everyone silently writes reasons on sticky notes for 5 minutes.
Most likely causes: cluster together and vote for the top 3.
Countermeasures: one action with an owner for each top cause.

Takes about 45 minutes; afterwards the actions belong in the risk register.

This template comes with Flowplan and is in the public domain (CC0). Its content is in German.

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