In a similarish vein to “reverse stress tests”, a thing I have occasionally deployed to at least some success is the “future retrospective/postmortem”, the gist of which being “if we all sit down after this project is over and talk about what went wrong and why, what do we think that we will say?” - often I find we all know what mistakes we’re making but don’t have a process to reconsider them.
In a similarish vein to “reverse stress tests”, a thing I have occasionally deployed to at least some success is the “future retrospective/postmortem”, the gist of which being “if we all sit down after this project is over and talk about what went wrong and why, what do we think that we will say?” - often I find we all know what mistakes we’re making but don’t have a process to reconsider them.
The apocryphal Lenin quote, linked to Quote Investigator was the early morning plot twist I deserved without knowing it.
As a bonus, I now also know what "apocryphal" means, the earlier ignorance of which led to the pleasant surprise of your link, "two birds one stone".
Nicely done!
I had to stop using “that’s as likely as Finland winning the Eurovision Song Contest”