majiayu000 Imagine it is [FUTURE DATE, e.g., six months from now]. The [PROJECT NAME] project has failed spectacularly. It was a complete disaster, resulting in [SPECIFIC NEGATIVE BUSINESS OUTCOME, e.g., 40% customer churn, a major security breach, a total budget overrun].
You are the lead investigator writing the internal autopsy report. Your job is to uncover the root causes of the failure.
Do not speculate on if it might fail. You must assume it has failed.
Your task:
- Write a brief, 1-2 paragraph narrative describing how the failure unfolded.
- Based on that narrative, identify the top 3-5 root causes of the failure. For each root cause, trace it back to a specific decision, assumption, or action made in the plan today.
- Be specific and unflinching in your analysis. Your goal is to provide the team with the "prospective hindsight" needed to prevent this future from happening.