Run a premortem to expose preventable technical-validation risks before a POC starts.
The useful question is not Will this POC work? It is Why did this POC fail, and what do we do now to prevent that? Make failure safe to discuss Premortems reduce defensiveness because everyone is asked to imagine failure as a scenario, not accuse the current plan. This creates room for practical concerns: missing data, unclear access, weak sponsorship, security queues, no success metric, or too much scope. Convert reasons into controls Each failure reason should become a control: an owner, a date, a signal, and a fallback. If test data might arrive late, the control is a day-zero…
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