Description
pre-mortem is an agent skill that runs a pre-mortem risk analysis on a PRD or a launch plan. It imagines that the launch has failed and works backwards to find the real causes. Its risks are sorted into three groups: tigers, which are real problems that need action; paper tigers, which are overblown concerns that deserve less time; and elephants, which are the unspoken issues that nobody wants to raise. For the launch-blocking tigers it proposes action plans to reduce them before launch, when there is still time to act. The skill takes the view of a veteran product manager and is built to separate legitimate threats from worries that only feel serious. You give it the PRD or launch plan, and it returns the sorted risks with a plan for the ones that matter. It is useful shortly before a launch, when a team needs an honest look at what could go wrong. The skill is part of the pm-skills collection by phuryn and is listed on skills.sh as free.…
Highlights
- Imagines launch failure and works backwards to the causes
- Sorts risks into tigers, paper tigers and elephants
- Action plans for launch-blocking risks
- Runs on a PRD or launch plan
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What is a pre-mortem?
A way of assuming a launch has failed and working backwards to find the causes while there is still time to act.
What are tigers, paper tigers and elephants?
Real problems, overblown concerns, and unspoken issues, respectively.
What does it output for real risks?
Action plans to mitigate the launch-blocking issues.
Who is it for?
Product managers preparing a launch.
How do I install it?
Run npx skills add https://github.com/phuryn/pm-skills --skill pre-mortem in your terminal.
Is it free?
The listing shows the skill as free.
What are the best pre-mortem alternatives?
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