From the course: Applied Curiosity
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Use curiosity archetypes to make projects more successful
From the course: Applied Curiosity
Use curiosity archetypes to make projects more successful
- Projects fail at a spectacular rate. One reason: curiosity killers. They lurk in both the critical planning phase and later during the evaluation phase of projects, hiding insights and making people reluctant to speak up. You can use the premortem and postmortem strategies to reduce your project failure rates. A premortem is a management strategy used at the planning phase of a project. A postmortem is a strategy used at the end of a project. With the premortem, the project team imagines that a soon-to-launch project or venture has failed. Then they work backwards to determine what could have caused the failure. This process can highlight potential weaknesses, threats, and false assumptions. It helps you and your team explore options and consider unintended consequences. Because a premortem is a product failure thought experiment, it's more revealing than just asking, if this doesn't work, what will we learn? You can use the four curiosity archetypes to glean insights during the…
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