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pre-mortem-strategist

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Identify failure modes before you commit.

Product & Management#risk-management#decision-making#founder#strategic-analysis#scenario-planning#pre-mortem
AuthorPeter-Swain-Inc
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

This skill helps founders and product teams anticipate and prevent strategic failures by conducting structured pre-mortem analyses that surface hidden risks, assumptions, and failure modes before committing to a path.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Structured seven-dimension risk taxonomy to categorize and assess potential failure points across market, execution, finance, competition, dependencies, cognitive biases, and systemic effects.
  • Kill-chain analysis to identify the three most lethal failure sequences and why these would slip past standard plans.
  • Assumption audit to extract the top five implicit assumptions, rate their validity, and design pre-commitment tests.
  • Deliverable: a comprehensive Pre-Mortem Strategy Brief that informs go/no-go decisions and risk mitigations for strategic initiatives such as launches, partnerships, or major investments.

Quick Start

Describe the initiative, timeline, and success criteria to begin the pre-mortem analysis.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

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Name: pre-mortem-strategist
Download link: https://github.com/Peter-Swain-Inc/futureproof-skills/archive/main.zip#pre-mortem-strategist

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