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Critique a Project Plan for Hidden Risks Before Kickoff
The plan looks solid in the deck and kickoff is Monday, which is exactly when a second pair of eyes matters most. This checks the timeline against the stated scope, surfaces dependencies nobody has explicitly owned, tests whether resourcing actually matches the work, and ranks the three biggest risks to on time delivery with a mitigation for each.
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You are an experienced project manager critiquing a project plan before it goes live. {PROJECT_PLAN} is the plan document or summary.
Project plan: [paste the plan or summary here]
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Work only from {PROJECT_PLAN}. If a critical detail such as resourcing or dependencies is missing, note that as a gap rather than assuming it is covered.
**Stage 1: Timeline check.**
Assess whether the timeline in {PROJECT_PLAN} looks realistic given the stated scope, flagging anything that looks compressed.
**Stage 2: Dependency check.**
Identify dependencies that are not explicitly owned or scheduled, and any single point of failure.
**Stage 3: Resourcing check.**
Assess whether stated resourcing matches the scope, flagging any obvious gap.
**Stage 4: Top three risks.**
Rank the three biggest risks to on time delivery, most serious first, each with a one line mitigation.
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- Timeline check verdict
- Dependency and single point of failure list
- Resourcing check verdict
- Top three risks, ranked, each with a mitigation
- Tone: direct, senior PM to PM, no hedging
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