program-premortem SKILL.md skillA
program-premortem from rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os/program-premortem@git:20260919.72235e0Pins git:20260919.72235e0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os
- Path
skills/program-premortem/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260919.72235e0, committed Sep 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 1, 2026
- Size
- 9,336 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
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.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# 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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How to install
mdr add rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os/program-premortem@sha256:58f6030e2a64faa1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260919.72235e0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Sep 1, 2026 and Sep 19, 2026, about one every 6 days.
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| git:20260919.72235e0 latest | 2026-09-19 | 72235e0 | 9,336 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260904.53136c1 | 2026-09-04 | 53136c1 | 7,598 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260903.fa79c16 | 2026-09-03 | fa79c16 | 5,980 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.cbea862 | 2026-09-01 | cbea862 | 5,612 B | A | view |
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Source
rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dxeb3wjils524hwh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rizwanzafaris/product-manager-os/program-premortem GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/58f6030e2a64faa146e2c3c768b0624a4cbebd853ef69192a73c1a671eb08801
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