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How a CTO Uses Pre-Mortems to Avoid Failure Before It Happens
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the pre-mortem technique—a structured exercise where engineering teams imagine a project has already failed and work backward to identify what went wrong. Lucas walks through a real example from a CTO at a mid-sized SaaS company who ran a pre-mortem before a major platform migration, uncovering hidden assumptions about database load and third-party API rate limits that would have caused a six-week delay. Luna pushes on whether pre-mortems breed pessimism, and Lucas explains how they actually reduce anxiety by surfacing risks early. The episode covers…
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