Latest / Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations
Why Your Eng Team Needs a Pre-Mortem Before Every Launch
Lucas and Luna dive into the pre-mortem technique—a structured exercise where an engineering team imagines a project has failed six months in the future and reverse-engineers what went wrong. Lucas shares how a pre-mortem at his former company caught a critical scaling flaw in a new payment service before launch, saving $2 million in potential rework. Luna contrasts this with standard post-mortems and argues that pre-mortems surface hidden assumptions without blame. They discuss how top tech teams at companies like Amazon and Google have used pre-mortems to avoid catastrophic failures, and…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.