Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to introduce you to the pre-mortem technique.

One simple trick to avoid failing at your most important projects. The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

A quote by John F. Kennedy.

Today I have another very practical episode for you, and this one is on the topic of the pre-mortem.

This is a simple project management technique, which is the opposite of a post-mortem.

And you've probably heard of a post-mortem before, especially if you're in business or you've done any kind of project development work.

So what this basically is the post-mortem

is that after a project is complete,

after you launch a service or a product,

the people who worked on it come back together, sit in a room and

ask themselves a couple of important questions.

They ask themselves, okay, what did we, what did we do right and what did we do wrong? And the point of it is that you learn from your mistakes so that the next project that you go and work on you can then learn these lessons and apply them.

What the pre-mortem is is sort of like the post-mortem except rather than

doing at the end of the project you do it before you even begun the project. Now it sound a little weird.

How can you do a post-mortem before you even started the project?

Well, it's a really brilliant strategy that I want to share with you and I'm going to give you a lot of

examples for how this works.

But before we get into that, let me just remind you that this fits into the larger picture of strategic

thinking.

I hope that as you go forward in your life, whether you're working on relationships, business,

your health, your spirituality, your personal development, whatever, that you're applying strategic thinking to it.

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