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Risk and Issue Surfacing

Proactively surface risks and issues from team communications before they escalate.

The prompt
Review project correspondence for [Project Name] from the past 2 weeks. Identify mentions of:
- Problems, issues, or blockers
- Schedule or cost concerns
- Quality or safety worries
- Resource constraints
- Stakeholder escalations

Summarize each with context. I will assess severity and add to risk register as appropriate.

How to use it

  1. 1Select Copy the prompt above.
  2. 2Paste it into Microsoft 365 Copilot.
  3. 3Replace anything in brackets with your own detail, then send it.

Copilot gathers and drafts. You verify and decide. Check every figure, name and date against the system it came from before you act on it.

Written for

Project Manager, Risk Manager, Program Manager

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From the source collection in awesome-microsoft-copilot-prompts, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.