Summarise the Risks in a Plan You Are About to Execute

Plans are easier to improve before execution than during it. A pre-execution risk review surfaces the most dangerous assumption, the single point of failure, the most likely deviation, and the pre-mortem story of how it would go wrong. It also identifies the one adjustment that most reduces identified risk. This is a faster and more useful review than a full risk register for a plan in flight.

I am about to execute the following plan: {PLAN_DESCRIPTION}. Key steps: {KEY_STEPS}. Timeline: {TIMELINE}.

I have assumed: {ASSUMPTIONS}.

Summarise the risks:
1. The most dangerous assumption: the assumption in my plan that would cause the most damage if it turned out to be wrong, and how I would know it was wrong early enough to adjust
2. The single point of failure: the step or dependency in this plan where failure would be hardest to recover from
3. The most likely deviation: the thing most likely to go differently from the plan, based on how these types of plans typically unfold, and what early deviation looks like
4. The pre-mortem question: if this plan fails in [six months], what is the most likely story of how it went wrong?
5. One adjustment to make before starting: the single thing I could change or add to the plan now that would most reduce the identified risks