Strategic Project Planning with Pre-Mortems
Pre-mortems provide a unique lens through which professionals and teams can preemptively identify potential pitfalls in projects before they even begin. In a rapidly changing world, the ability to foresee and mitigate risks is not just a skill but a strategic advantage. By engaging in pre-mortem sessions, you are essentially conducting a proactive diagnosis that promotes your projectā€™s health and success.
- Strengthen Decision-Making: Understand potential challenges and bottlenecks early, allowing for thoughtful, informed decision-making before any real issues arise.
- Boost Project Success Rates: By collectively anticipating issues, teams can devise mitigation plans that significantly increase the likelihood of project success.
- Save Time and Resources: Preventing problems before they occur means less time and resources spent on firefighting and more on productive, impactful work.
This exercise equips individuals and organizations with the foresight needed to navigate complex projects, ensuring that they not only survive in today's dynamic business environment but thrive by turning potential obstacles into well-prepared opportunities.
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Who It’s For?
Pre-mortems are essential for:
- Project Managers and Team Leaders who are responsible for delivering projects on time and within budget.
- Strategic Planners and Decision Makers within organizations who need to ensure that business initiatives stay within scope and support the organizationā€™s long-term goals.
- Innovation and Risk Management Professionals who require tools to assess potential failures and design effective mitigation strategies.
If you find yourself frequently navigating complex projects with high stakes, incorporating pre-mortems into your planning process can provide the confidence and preparedness needed to succeed.
How It Works
Our experienced coach guides you through each step, giving you direct feedback on your work and helping you develop innovation as a core competency. You will use your own projects to ensure that the theory is immediately applied to real-world scenarios.
Real Projects
Get individual feedback on your real projects.
Focused Guidance
Develop new skills with a small cohort and direct coaching.
Interactive Sessions
Run live exercises with an expert coach during our weekly sessions.
Materials & Frameworks
Get self-study learning materials and frameworks.
What You Learn
Running team pre-mortems, will afford you:
- Critical Insight into Potential Failures: Learn to identify and address points of weakness before they become points of failure.
- Strategic Problem-Solving Skills: Enhance your ability to develop preventive strategies to address potential issues identified during the pre-mortem.
- Frameworks and Mental Models: Utilize a structured approach to predict and mitigate risks, improving your project management and leadership capabilities.
Designed by Successful Entrepreneurs and Experts
Tristan Kromer
Tristan Kromer works with innovation teams and leaders to create amazing products and build startup ecosystems. He has worked with companies from early stage startups with zero revenue to enterprise companies with >$1B USD revenue (Unilever, Swisscom, Salesforce, Fujitsu, LinkedIn).
Megan Wilder
Megan is an Innovation Coach and Process Designer. She brings ten years of experience in project management and consulting - analyzing data, solving problems, and communicating with stakeholders. Her key strengths lie in providing design solutions that balance both the business and user needs.
Testimonials
Kromatic’s hands-on introduction to Lean Startup and its guiding principles was a complete wake-up call for my startup, forcing us to launch our MVP and learn fast.
Ryan Bruels, Vice President of Engineering, Knock
Kromatic’s workshop was incredibly engaging and interactive. Every detail was carefully thought out, from the design-thinking approach to clear and visually engaging material.
Kathryn Haydon, Innovation Strategist, Sparkitivity
It helped to think through a new lens on how to measure the middle space between initial vanity metrics and long-term revenue/product results.
Kyle Smith, Senior Manager, American Family Insurance
Rigorous is a great word to describe Kromatic. The pace is fast and intense. It’s part of their ethos that you need to learn and fail quickly.
Brendan Sheehan, Chief Financial Officer, CBUSA
Our coach helped us to identify the most important steps to take, and we always had a clear objective and action plan at the end of a conversation.
James Bryce Smith, Founder, Magnetize
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