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A guide for mentees: Pre-mortem for Mentees

What the Pre-mortem is, how to fill it in and what happens next.

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What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What it is

Picture the failure, then prevent it

You imagine your plan failed a year from now and write down why.

Why it helps

Hard reasons get easier to say

Once failure is treated as a fact, its reasons are easier to name.

  • Not a forecast a way to think ahead
  • Your own list nobody grades it
  • Three plans for the worst risks

Filling it in

Fifteen minutes, in four steps

Write the plan and the reasons, rate them, then plan for three.

Write why it failed

Write as if it already happened, one reason per line.

Rate and place each reason

Top right on the grid means likely and damaging.

Plan for the top three

Say what you will do and the early warning sign.

Write why it failed

Write as if it already happened, one reason per line.

Rate and place each reason

Top right on the grid means likely and damaging.

Plan for the top three

Say what you will do and the early warning sign.

On Mentornity

Find it, fill it in, send it

Your mentor’s tool waits on your home page until you send it.

Find it on your home page

Tools to fill in shows what was sent, and by whom.

Stop whenever you like

Your answers are saved as you go.

Check, then send

Before you send, you see any step left empty.

Find it on your home page

Tools to fill in shows what was sent, and by whom.

Stop whenever you like

Your answers are saved as you go.

Check, then send

Before you send, you see any step left empty.

What happens next

You talk it through together

Your mentor reads your risks, comments and agrees next steps with you.

  • Only you two program admins do not see the answers
  • Comments on any part of it
  • Next steps who does what, by when
  • Still editable change answers after sending

Fill it in before you commit

Bring your top-right risks to the meeting and talk them through.

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