Pre-Mortem Analysis

Imagine your project already failed and work backwards to prevent it.

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Imagine it's 12 months from now and {{project}} has completely failed.

Write the post-mortem. What went wrong, in order of likelihood? For each cause,
give an early warning sign I could watch for now and one action that would
reduce the risk today.

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