Sentence examples for pre-mortem from inspiring English sources

It's something called a pre-mortem.

Unfortunately, there is no pre-mortem diagnosis available for CAA.

She must erase the memory of death, of the lambs' pre-mortem bleating.

Recent papers have modeled dowries as pre-mortem bequests to daughters or as groom-prices paid to in-laws.

In the present work, a pre-mortem tool is developed to predict unbalanced mass well before manufacturing.

In the pre-mortem, company officials assume they have just learned that a product or a service they are about to introduce has "failed spectacularly".

2. Overcome confirmation bias by appointing a devil's advocate for all major decisions and engaging in a "pre-mortem" (a prospective post-mortem).

Furthermore, three post-mortem spleens and two pre-mortem tonsils from three patients with variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD) were detected correctly.

The pre-mortem got going even before the first ward had declared, with Paddy Ashdown blasting the Conservatives on Question Time, and telling the Guardian that their "regiment of lies" will settle the terms on which the coalition ends.

"A pre-mortem in a business setting comes at the beginning of a project rather than the end, so the project can be improved rather than autopsied," Mr. Klein explains in The Harvard Business Review.

One good way to develop a plan is to do a pre-mortem: Take a team of people, and get half of them to imagine the plan has been put in motion and failed terribly.