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One of the best planning exercises I've heard is asking every attendee to think of a way the suggested plan could go awry. The genius is that failure scenarios
by ethbr0 4y ago
One of the best planning exercises I've heard is asking every attendee to think of a way the suggested plan could go awry.
The genius is that failure scenarios are, by definition, detail-oriented.
Consequently, it's an easy bridge into the discussing the details that actually matter (i.e. those that could threaten the entire plan).
- benji-york 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-mortem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-mortem
- 121789 4y agoPre-mortems. In general I haven’t found them that useful as the teams/leads I’ve worked with generally have the risks covered already
- ethbr0 4y agoThey're more useful, the more disfunctional and rose colored glasses the org has.