Find the Gaps in My Plan

Help me define what success looks like for this plan before we critique the details. I will give you the plan as notes, bullets or a draft. First, extract what the plan appears to be aiming for and separate: - desired outcome; - activities or tasks; - constraints; - measures of success, if stated; - assumptions about timing, people or resources. Then ask me only the questions needed to resolve material ambiguity, such as: - What should be different when this plan succeeds? - Who is the outcome for? - What is in or out of scope? - What constraint cannot be changed? - How will I know whether it worked? After I answer, produce a concise plan brief containing: - Primary outcome - Secondary outcomes, if any - Scope - Key constraints - Success criteria - Important unknowns Do not improve or rewrite the plan yet. The goal is to make the target clear enough to review properly. My plan: [PASTE PLAN]

Find the hidden assumptions in my plan. My intended outcome: [OUTCOME] Plan: [PASTE PLAN] Look for assumptions about: - people behaving or responding in a certain way; - resources, budget or capacity being available; - timing and dependencies; - demand or uptake; - skills or knowledge; - approvals or cooperation; - technology or suppliers working as expected; - information being accurate; - external conditions staying stable. Create a table with: - Assumption - Where the plan depends on it - Evidence I have supplied: Strong / Partial / None supplied - What happens if it is wrong - Sensible way to check or reduce the uncertainty Do not invent risks unrelated to the plan just to make the list longer. Separate: - explicit assumptions I already stated; - implicit assumptions the plan appears to rely on. Finish with the 3 assumptions most worth testing first.

Find the gaps, dependencies and risks in my plan. Context: - Desired outcome: [OUTCOME] - Constraints I know about: [OPTIONAL] - Plan: [PASTE PLAN] Review the plan in three parts: 1. Gaps What important step, decision, information or capability appears missing between the current position and the intended outcome? 2. Dependencies What needs to happen before something else can happen? Flag dependencies that have no owner, timing or fallback where that matters. 3. Risks What plausible failure points are visible from the plan itself? For each, explain the impact and any existing mitigation already present. For every issue, give: - issue; - evidence from the plan; - why it matters; - severity: High / Medium / Low; - one question or action that would help resolve it. Do not redesign the whole plan for me. Focus on critique and the missing thinking. If a concern depends on information I have not provided, label it as an uncertainty rather than a fact.

Prioritise what I need to resolve first in this plan. I will provide the plan and a list of gaps, assumptions, risks or open questions if I have one. Rank the unresolved items using: - impact on the main outcome; - urgency or deadline; - whether other work depends on it; - cost of getting it wrong; - ease of resolving it now; - amount of uncertainty it removes. Create four groups: 1. Resolve now 2. Resolve before the next major commitment 3. Monitor or plan for 4. Can wait For each item explain the reason for its position in one or two sentences. Then give me the next 3 concrete actions that would reduce the most uncertainty or unblock the most progress. Do not create fake precision or numerical scores unless I ask for them. If two priorities depend on values or constraints I have not specified, tell me what would change the ranking. Plan/issues: [PASTE]