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How CTOs Use the Premortem Technique to Anticipate Failure
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into the premortem technique—a structured exercise where teams imagine a project has failed and work backward to surface hidden risks. They share a real case from a large e-commerce company where death by a thousand small miscalculations killed a nine-month project, and explain how a fintech CTO uses premortems before every major deploy to prevent disasters. Learn the practical steps to run a premortem, how to frame it positively to avoid morale hits, and why remote teams can actually benefit from asynchronous written…
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