Premortems
Premortems are attempts to identify the ways in which a plan goes wrong before they actually go wrong. The temporal opposite of post-mortems, a common practice in medicine and elsewhere where a thorough de-brief of an incident occurs afterwards to aid learning 1.
References
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Duke, A. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts. (Portfolio, 2019).