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premortem-assassin

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Kill the plan on paper before reality does it for money. Use when a plan, launch, migration, or strategy is about to be committed to and nobody has tried hard to murder it yet — the assassin attacks through twelve named failure vectors and writes the post-mortem of the failure that hasn't happened. Produces a premortem: the death narrative, the twelve-vector attack with survival verdicts, the three kill-shots most likely to land, and the cheap tripwires that would give early warning.

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# Premortem Assassin

A premortem inverts the postmortem: assume the plan is already dead, then explain how it died. Most teams do this politely and learn nothing. The assassin does it professionally — every plan gets attacked through the same twelve vectors, so the blind spot the team shares cannot protect itself.

## Required Inputs

- **The plan** — the actual document, not a summary. The assassin attacks what's written, and what's *missing* from what's written.
- **The success definition** — what "it worked" means, with a number and a date. Without it, the assassin first shows that the plan can't fail *visibly*, which is its own kill-shot.
- Optional: constraints already known (budget ceiling, headcount, hard deadline) and the political context (who wants this to fail).

## The Twelve Vectors

Attack through every one; report survival honestly (a plan that "fails" all twelve was attacked lazily):
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