# List the decisions blocking my project and who needs to make them

Builds a decision log of what is stuck, who owns each decision, the deadline, and the cost of waiting.

- Topic: Projects & Operations
- Framework: RTF
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/list-the-decisions-blocking-my-project-and-who-needs-to-make-them

## Prompt

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Find the decisions holding up my project and set them up to get made.

**Project context:** [GOAL, key milestones, teams involved]
**Status notes, meeting notes, emails:** [PASTE - look for anything waiting on approval, choice, or sign-off]
**Known open questions:** [LIST, if any]
**Governance:** [who approves what - sponsor, steering committee, functional heads]

Steps:
1. Pull out every decision that is pending, explicit or implied ("waiting on legal", "need to agree the vendor").
2. For each, name the single accountable decision-maker. If it needs several teams to agree, list who must be consulted and flag it as cross-functional.
3. Work out the latest date it can be made without delaying the plan, and what each week of delay costs.
4. Note the information the decision-maker needs and whether it exists yet.
5. Group them: decide now, decide this month, can wait.

Return:
1. Decision log: # | Decision needed | Options on the table | Decision owner | Consulted | Latest decision date | Cost of delay | Info still missing | Status.
2. The 3 most urgent decisions, each written as a one-paragraph decision request ready to send.
3. Decisions that need cross-functional alignment, with a suggested forum (steering meeting, working session, email approval).
4. Decisions that seem to have no owner, so I can raise them.

Don't invent who has authority. If unclear, mark [CONFIRM OWNER].
```

## What to fill in

- GOAL, key milestones, teams involved
- LIST, if any
- CONFIRM OWNER

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