Use This Framework Before Your Next Event to Remove Any Obstacles to its Success

Have you ever finished a project or event and then gone through a debrief or postmortem of the activity?

You can figure out what went well, what didn’t, and how you can improve before the next event. This is how you grow as a person and/or team.

What if you could debrief before the event took place?

You can! Use this framework before your next event to make it go more smoothly.

The Premortem

Here’s how you perform a premortem.

Before the event or project starts, ask this question:

“If this event is a failure, what are the things that caused it to fail?”

Then you start brainstorming the things that could get in the way of the event’s success.

This totally flips the script on project/event planning. We usually try to think of all the things we need to do to make it a success. When you focus on things that could make it fail, you can prepare to make sure those things don’t happen.

The weakest points of your planning or the team you have assigned to the project become apparent.

The 1, 2 Combo

Now combine the Premortem discussion with the Postmortem or Debrief after the event and you have a sure-fire way to make sure things go as they should and that you continue to improve and learn.

That’s a winning combo!

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