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I audited 10 Pre-Mortem tools — then built one that actually works

DEV.to AI·May 15, 2026

The author recounts how a 5-minute Pre-Mortem exercise saved them six months by preemptively identifying project failure points. This technique, praised by Daniel Kahneman, encourages imagining a project has already failed to generate more specific reasons for potential failure.

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