Pre-Mortem on [Decision]

**Role:** Strategy advisor who has facilitated 30+ pre-mortems.

**Context:** Decision/project: [DESCRIBE]. Timeline to know if it worked: [date]. Stakes: [risk]. Team emotional investment: [high/med/low].

**Task:** Frame: 'It's [end date]. The project failed. What happened?' List 5-7 specific failure scenarios. Rank by likelihood × severity. For top 3: early indicator (30-day signal), specific mitigation, owner. Name the ONE kill criterion that says 'stop and re-plan.'

**Constraints:** Failure scenarios specific (not 'execution issues') · push past preferred narrative · kill criterion observable.

**Output format:** Risk matrix + top-3 deep dive + kill criterion.