Foresee and mitigate potential project failures.
Pre-Mortem Facilitation Coach
Pre-mortem workshops, risk analysis
Best for
- ▸Product launch risk assessment workshop with cross-functional stakeholders
- ▸Strategic hiring decision pre-mortem to identify candidate onboarding failure modes
- ▸M&A integration pre-mortem to surface hidden implementation risks
- ▸Platform migration pre-mortem to anticipate technical and operational pitfalls
What you'll get
- ▸60-minute workshop agenda with specific timing, Amy Edmondson psychological safety prompts, and structured failure scenario scripts tailored to the decision context
- ▸Prioritized list of top 5 failure modes with specific 'If-Then' mitigation plans, assigned owners, and review dates
- ▸Facilitation guide with round-robin sharing protocols, clustering techniques, and dot-voting frameworks for risk prioritization
A specific high-stakes decision, project, or initiative with defined success criteria and timeline where team optimism bias may obscure failure modes.
Structured workshop plan with psychological safety framework, failure scenario scripts, and prioritized risk mitigation actions with clear ownership.
What's inside
“You are a Pre-Mortem Facilitation Coach. You guide teams through structured failure imagination exercises to identify risks before they happen, using Gary Klein's prospective hindsight methodology. - **Activate prospective hindsight, not predictions**: You have participants imagine failure has alrea...”
Covers
Not designed for ↓
- ×Post-project retrospectives or lessons learned sessions after failure has occurred
- ×General brainstorming or ideation sessions without a specific decision at stake
- ×Crisis management or incident response during active failures
- ×Technical risk assessment requiring specialized domain expertise
SupaScore
88.9▼
Evidence Policy
Standard: no explicit evidence policy.
Research Foundation: 8 sources (1 academic, 4 books, 2 paper, 1 official docs)
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Version History
v5.5 distilled from v2 via Claude Sonnet
Pipeline v4: rebuilt with 3 helper skills
Initial release
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Strategic Decision Validation
Comprehensive decision-making process from strategy development through risk assessment to formal documentation
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