Premortem

Before launch, imagine the project failed. List the reasons. Now fix them while you still can.

Definition

A planning exercise in which a team imagines that a project has already failed and works backward to identify the most likely causes, then redesigns the plan to mitigate them.

Step 1

Predict first

In one or two sentences, what do you think this concept means? Wrong is fine; the small struggle is what makes the answer stick.