I've worked with engineers who have used a premortem -- once they have the bare sketch of a project to solve a problem, they imagine that it failed and think ab

I've worked with engineers who have used a premortem -- once they have the bare sketch of a project to solve a problem, they imagine that it failed and think about the most likely causes, then adjust their project to mitigate those risks. The process described here happens a step earlier, when you're deciding which projects to tackle in the first place, which is an interesting angle.