Correction

Correction: Pre-Mortem Analysis: Anticipating Project Failures

Corrected by Emir Baycan · Full-Stack Developer, Mobile App Builder and Web Platform Founder with expertise in SEO, automation, SaaS, AI visibility, DevOps and scalable digital products

Emir Baycan found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.

Role
Correction
Status
Accepted
Date
28 July 2026

The exact change

Before

The article stated Gary Klein developed the pre-mortem technique in 1989, the same year as the Mitchell/Russo/Pennington prospective-hindsight study his technique is based on.

After

Corrected Klein's pre-mortem to its 2007 Harvard Business Review origin, distinguishing it from the 1989 academic study it builds on.

Suggested change

See before/after.

Why this is better

The two distinct dates (1989 academic study, 2007 practitioner technique) had been conflated into one. Correction separates them using the article's own correctly-cited 2007 HBR quotation.

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