Four ways to assess projects and keep them on track

How to make better decisions: slow down and think twice, conduct a premortem, red-team your strategy, consider counterfactuals, minimize hindsight bias and creeping determinism, and consider a wider range of potential outcomes 

There’s a cognitive bias that is coming into play when we do this. It’s called the curse of knowledge.55 Once we know something (like we do in this situation, we have a wealth of discovery work that supports our point of view), it’s hard for us to remember what it was like not to have that knowledge. In fact, our conclusions—our roadmaps, our backl