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#35Chapter 04 — Claude for Project Management & Productivity
Here is my project plan for [project name]: [Paste your plan — can be a structured timeline, a list of tasks with owners and dates, or even a rough description of what needs to happen in what order] Perform three analyses: **1. Dependency Map** Identify every dependency between tasks. For each dependency, specify: - Which task depends on which - Whether it's a hard dependency (cannot start until the other finishes) or soft dependency (could start in parallel with risk) - The impact if the upstream task is delayed by 1 week **2. Pre-Mortem Analysis** Imagine it's [project end date + 1 month]. The project has failed. It went over budget, over time, and the deliverables were rejected by stakeholders. Working backward from this failure, identify: - The 5 most likely causes of failure, ranked by probability - For each cause: the earliest warning sign that would indicate this risk is materializing - For each cause: one specific action to mitigate the risk NOW, before it happens **3. Bottleneck Identification** Which person, team, or resource appears most frequently across the plan? Flag any single point of failure — a person or resource that, if unavailable for a week, would stall the entire project. Be direct and specific. Don't soften the risks to be polite.

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