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Retrospective & Counterfactual Reasoning

Core principle: Looking backwards is not about blame — it's about extracting signal. A well-run retrospective or post-mortem separates what was predictable from what was genuinely unforeseeable, identifies what conditions made failure likely, and generates changes that prevent the same failure mode from recurring under different surface conditions.

Counterfactual reasoning — "what would have happened if we'd done X?" — is the backward-looking complement to the forward-looking pre-mortem. Both require the same discipline: rigorous causal thinking, not narrative construction after the fact.


Two Modes

Mode 1: Post-Mortem / Retrospective

Something happened. What caused it and what do we change?

Focus: Causal reconstruction, systemic learning, forward-looking change.

Mode 2: Counterfactual Analysis

What would have happened if we'd made a different decision?

Focus: Decision quality assessment, calibration, learning from near-misses and successes.

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