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The launch pre-mortem: you can't promise a quiet launch, but you can give your team the bad night in advance.
Tested, green dashboards, everyone is confident. It wobbled forty minutes in, and the team fell apart, not because the wobble was big, but because nobodyhad told them it was coming.
A dad tells his ten-year-old before a cup final: " You're going to have to suffer today. The boy plays through the hardmoment because he was warned. This episode is about doing that for your team.You can't promise a quiet launch; you can give them a bad night in advance.
That's a pre-mortem.
The habit: a ten-minute pre-mortem before your next change. It's 3am, this broke, tell me the story.
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