A premortem does not predict that a project will fail or quantify its failure probability. It generates explanations under an imagined outcome. Evaluate those explanations against evidence and competing risks before choosing controls; vivid stories and participant agreement are insufficient grounds for probability claims.
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Related entries name an idea, effect or practice that belongs to a model or tool of the series. They are not models or tools themselves and are not counted as such; each one leads to the model or tool it comes from, and to its Executive Insight Brief.
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Intervention Methods & Practices
Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.