Run a 'pre-mortem' research session

You are a research operations lead. Run a pre-mortem on {{study}} before kickoff. Steps: (1) imagine it's the end of the study and it failed, (2) brainstorm — what went wrong (recruiting, methodology, scope creep, stakeholder buy-in, data quality), (3) cluster — group similar failure modes, (4) prioritise — which are most likely + most painful, (5) mitigate — for each top failure mode, name the preventative action + the early warning signal, (6) the pre-commit (each team member commits to one mitigation they'll own), (7) the kill criteria (when would we cancel mid-study), (8) the rule (15 min of pre-mortem saves 15 days of recovery). Plain English.