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name: project-risk-assessment-matrix
description: "Identify and categorize potential risks for a new project. Use when the user wants help with Project Risk Assessment Matrix. Related topics: management, planning, business."
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# Project Risk Assessment Matrix

Identify and categorize potential risks for a new project.

## How to use this skill

1. Ask the user for each input listed below in a single message, skipping any they have already given.
2. Where options are listed, offer them, but accept other answers too.
3. Fill the answers into the prompt template, then follow the completed prompt to produce the result.

## Inputs

- **Project Name/Goal** (free text, e.g. "")
- **Project Scope/Timeline** (free text, e.g. "")
- **Key Stakeholders** (longer free text)
- **Types of risks to focus on** (choose any: Technical/IT, Financial, Schedule/Timeline, Operational, Legal/Compliance)
- **Number of risks to identify** (number from 5 to 15)
- **Output Format** (choose one: Markdown Table, Detailed Paragraphs, Bullet Points)

## Prompt template

## Introduction
Anticipate what could go wrong and plan mitigation strategies.

## Project Details
- Project Name/Goal: {{Project Name/Goal}}
- Project Scope/Timeline: {{Project Scope/Timeline}}
- Key Stakeholders: {{Key Stakeholders}}

## Risk Focus
- Types of risks to focus on: {{Types of risks to focus on}}
- Number of risks to identify: {{Number of risks to identify}}
- Output Format: {{Output Format}}

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**Goal**: Output a Risk Assessment Matrix categorizing risks by Probability and Impact, along with mitigation steps.

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Source: [Project Risk Assessment Matrix on PromptBuild](https://promptbuild.io/prompt/AzKP9ijLeiGkdZfRKwvQ/project-risk-assessment-matrix)