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Premortem Analysis

Chapter: Chapter 8 — Tools, Techniques & Practices ACT/GTM: ACT Command: /redteam premortem

Assume failure; work backward to causes and preventions.

30–60 min; optimism bias; pre-launch.

Future failure scenario → brainstorm causes → rank → prevent/detect/respond for top risks.

Category: adversarial. RedTeam may extend or alias this technique.

Part of The Red Team Handbook, Version 10, maintained by Curate Labs — successor to the defunct UFMCS v9.0 work. See SOURCE.md and NOTICE.md.