Pre-mortem strategies are proactive strategies that assume a failure has occurred and then work backward to come up with reasons for that failure. All potential reasons are analyzed by a diverse team of organizational stakeholders who select those most likely to be the cause. A plan is then put in place to prevent the failure from happening in the future; thereby circumventing the need for a dreaded post-mortem strategy. This book examines pre-mortem strategies for information technology. First, it describes information technology and discusses its advantages and disadvantages. Next, it shows how pre-mortem strategies are developed and implemented in the real world. Last, it exemplifies the use of pre-mortem strategies for information technology. The text is informational and educational, and it is written for easy understanding at any reader level.