A Relational Intelligence deck
The Pre-mortem
These cards come from Relational Intelligence: a product is judged by what it leaves behind in people, not only by what it does. A team runs them over whatever it is about to ship, to catch the harm while there is still time to change course. Twelve cards in six opposite pairs, each holding one way a product helps the people it touches and one way it quietly harms them.
Click a card to flip it — light side to dark, and back.
You shipped. Eighteen months on, it has quietly harmed the people who trusted it. Which card killed it? And which card could save your project?
Six lenses, one per opposite pair: name the dark side first, then the light. Download the worksheet below and run whatever you are shipping through it with your team, out loud.
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Symbiosis is the principle. Regeneration is the test. Extraction is the failure mode.
A tool is judged by what it does. A relationship is judged by what it leaves behind.