Pre-mortem

The only guess I can make, and nothing beyond guessing seems possible in the case, is that the monument, if really erected in memory of Sir John Ackland, was executed in his lifetime, at his order and cost, and was completed—perhaps erected—in 1613–14. Pre-mortem monuments are by no means rare.

This should be borne in mind whenever alcohol has been measured in serum or plasma in hospital prior to death or where a pre-mortem hospital sample of serum or plasma is subsequently analyzed for alcohol.

However, more recently photography has also been preoccupied with a kind of pre-mortem state as photographers become increasingly interested in the process whereby the body decays and transforms until it ceases to exist.

Histology of internal organs and fluid found in body cavities can be useful for even moderately decomposed animals to identify haemorrhaging and blood clotting, which would only occur pre-mortem.

Evidently these doubts provoked not only astonishment, but concern as to whether the push for her canonization, which had even begun pre-mortem, was appropriate.

Dr Green concluded that he could not entirely exclude the possibility of post-mortem injury; however, those suspicions which he held about something nasty having happened pre-mortem were supported by the discovery that both feet had been held together by nylon tights, with pieces of tights material tied in a loop and with knots also lying nearby.

The pre-mortem is the most elegant of the methods for its simplicity, but it can suffer from limited expert participation and a less rigorous process. Pre-mortems have gained traction among military planners as way to overcome placing too much confidence in their own plans.

Some of the best pre-mortems for Steve Ballmer, out-going CEO of Microsoft, have chalked up the company's problem to the "innovator's dilemma."

There are more structured approaches to brainstorming, including scenario analysis, pre-mortems, movie plotting, and literature reviews, which can help bring a little structure, but they’re still not great.

As you look at your agile team’s high-level project plan, you notice there are three pre-mortems scheduled. You ask your leader to define a pre-mortem.