Conduct a “pre-mortem.”

Imag­ine that the strat­e­gy is imple­ment­ed, but ulti­mate­ly fails. What went wrong? Con­sid­er fac­tors both with­in and out­side of the con­trol of the project pro­po­nents, includ­ing polit­i­cal, finan­cial, unin­tend­ed con­se­quences, unex­pect­ed respons­es of nat­ur­al sys­tems, etc.