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Pre-mortem template for PowerPoint

Imagine the project has failed, and work out why before it starts.

Free: it uses no credits. You get your own copy to edit, in the look you pick here.

Or fill it in from your files. Attach your documents, notes or data and Claravo writes each part of the Pre-mortem from them, with its source. A part your files say nothing about keeps its question rather than a guess. This uses AI and counts as one creation.

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Look: Editorial

When to use it

Use it before a launch or big decision, to find the risks people hesitate to raise.

How to use it

  1. Make your own copy. It opens in the editor, where you can change the theme and edit anything.
  2. Fill in the fields below, and answer the question each slide asks with your own content and numbers.
  3. Download it as an editable PowerPoint file, or as a PDF. The file is reopened and checked before it is offered.

Slide by slide

  1. [subject] Pre-mortem · [date]
  2. What this analysis must answer Which decision does this Pre-mortem inform? Who will act on it, and by when? Which sources is it drawn from?
  3. Pre-mortem How it failed, Early warning signs, What we do now
  4. What follows Which parts matter most, and why? How do the parts connect? What will we do differently because of this?
  5. Next steps The decision this analysis asks for.

Fields to fill

Fill them once in the editor, or from a spreadsheet to make one copy per client. Where a slide needs content, it asks the question it must answer instead of showing a made-up answer.

  • {{subject}}
  • {{date}}

What is inside

{{subject}}
Pre-mortem · {{date}}
Slide 1
What this analysis must answer
Which decision does this Pre-mortem inform?
Who will act on it, and by when?
Which sources is it drawn from?
Slide 2
Pre-mortem
How it failed
Imagine it is a year from
now and this failed: what
went wrong?
Early warning signs
What would we see first?
What we do now
What do we change today
to prevent it?
Slide 3
What follows
Which parts matter most, and why?
How do the parts connect?
What will we do differently because of this?
Slide 4
Next steps
The decision this analysis asks for.
1. First action — who owns it — by when
2. Second action — who owns it — by when
3. The decision we need, and by when
Slide 5