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program-premortem is agent-read markdown (skill) from rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os: Run a premortem on a program plan against the twelve ways program managers actually fail. Use when a program is approaching kickoff, a major cutover, or Gate 3, or when status "feels fine" but nobody can prove it. Takes a plan, status pack, or verbal description and returns which failure modes are already present, with the evidence and the smallest intervention for each..

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# Program Premortem: the twelve ways program managers fail

Programs rarely die from the risk on the register. They die from patterns everyone has seen and nobody names in time. This skill names them, checks the plan against each, and prescribes the smallest intervention that changes the outcome.

## Files this skill drives

- [../../templates/execution/risk-register.md](../../templates/execution/risk-register.md), where PRESENT findings land as owned risks
- [../../templates/execution/dependency-register.md](../../templates/execution/dependency-register.md), the evidence base for modes 1 and 6
- The premortem runs before Gate 3 of [../../os/STAGE-GATES.md](../../os/STAGE-GATES.md); its findings are inputs to that gate's review
- See also [../../frameworks/execution/fmea.md](../../frameworks/execution/fmea.md) (from MIL-P-1629, 1949) when the plan is sound and the system itself is what worries you. A premortem invents causes for one named failure; FMEA walks the design function by function and enumerates the failure modes nobody thought to name, which is the half this skill does not cover

## When to use

- Before kickoff of anything with 3 or more teams or an external dependency
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rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main

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