Psychologist, naturalistic decision making researcher
Focus
Decision Making
Declare the plan already failed, give everyone two minutes alone to write why, and have the leader name a real flaw first.
It's not an issue of what can go wrong. We're dealing with a crystal ball that has showed that the plan has failed.
Gary Klein
built the premortem to fix the plan at kickoff: the failure list cuts the team's overconfidence, and a closing two-minute round on what each person will do leaves a stronger plan and a more resilient team.
counters that running a premortem rarely changes the plan much, and that its real output is kill criteria: the signals that mean stop, each tied to an action before anyone is invested.
From The Premortem
