# Klein 2007: Performing a Project Premortem

> Gary Klein, 2007. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The inquiry-framework report requires a premortem before any high-stakes pre-registration is…

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# Performing a Project Premortem

Gary Klein, 2007. _Harvard Business Review_.

A short Harvard Business Review piece describing the premortem, in which a team imagines at the outset that its project has failed and lists the reasons why.

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## What it's used for here

The inquiry-framework report requires a premortem before any high-stakes pre-registration is frozen, with the answers becoming extra predictions or kill criteria.

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```
Klein, G. (2007). Performing a Project Premortem. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2007/09/performing-a-project-premortem
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