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Discussion on: Moving Past Tutorials: Receiving a Problem to Solve

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Sandor Dargo

Think about what can go wrong - I like this one. Premeditatio malorum or the pre-meditation of evils is an old stoic exercise and helps you to prepare for the inevitable setbacks and problems you'll have to face not just in development, but in life.

While this is important on an individual level, it works on project level as well. It's called pre-mortem when before starting to work, the project team gathers and imagines that the project failed. Then they try to reverse engineer what went wrong.

Have you ever done a pre-mortem in your projects?