[ Pre-Mortem ]

In addition to “lessons learnt” sessions at the project conclusion, another good project management strategy is the ‘pre-mortem’ session. The ‘pre-mortem’ is undertaken before the project starts.  The project team thinks about all the things that could go wrong, in an attempt to manage them before they eventuate.

Using the lessons learnt from the previous project is an efficient and sensible way to kick off a pre-mortem, by reviewing the lessons learnt from last project’s problems.  Even if the scope of work isn’t exactly the same, the lessons can usually be extrapolated into new contexts in a pre-mortem facilitated workshop.