Correction Concepts
Pre-Mortem Analysis: Anticipating Project Failures
Learn how pre-mortem analysis helps identify potential project failures by imagining a negative outcome.
Factually incorrect
What was corrected
What the page claimed
The article stated Gary Klein developed the pre-mortem technique in 1989, the same year as the Mitchell/Russo/Pennington prospective-hindsight study his technique is based on.
What was corrected
Corrected Klein's pre-mortem to its 2007 Harvard Business Review origin, distinguishing it from the 1989 academic study it builds on.
Why this is better
The two distinct dates (1989 academic study, 2007 practitioner technique) had been conflated into one. Correction separates them using the article's own correctly-cited 2007 HBR quotation.
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