# Run a health check on my project and find what is going wrong

Scores your project across scope, schedule, budget, risk, team, and stakeholders, and pinpoints the real problems behind the noise.

- Topic: Projects & Operations
- Framework: RTF
- Level: Advanced
- Tags: Health & Wellness, Analyze, Plan, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/run-a-health-check-on-my-project-and-find-what-is-going-wrong

## Prompt

```text
Run a health check on my project and tell me what is really going wrong.

**Project goal and success measures:** [WHAT IT MUST DELIVER, and how success is judged]
**Plan and current status:** [PASTE plan, tracker, latest status reports]
**Budget:** [plan vs spent vs forecast, if tracked]
**Team and stakeholders:** [WHO IS INVOLVED, any recent changes]
**What feels wrong:** [MY GUT SENSE - e.g. "lots of activity but nothing finishes"]

Assess these 8 areas. For each, give a rating (healthy / at risk / failing), the evidence, and what is missing:
1. Goal clarity: does everyone agree what "done" means?
2. Scope: is it stable and controlled, or creeping?
3. Schedule: is the plan realistic and are milestones being hit?
4. Budget and resources: enough people and money, and are they actually available?
5. Risks and issues: are they logged, owned, and acted on?
6. Decisions: are they being made on time, by the right people?
7. Team: workload, morale, skill gaps, turnover.
8. Stakeholders: sponsor engagement, alignment, communication.

Then return:
1. A scorecard table: Area | Rating | Evidence | Gap.
2. The 3 problems that matter most, written as cause, effect, and what happens if nothing changes.
3. Warning signs to watch over the next 2-4 weeks.
4. Questions I should ask the team and sponsor to confirm what you found.
5. Recommended next steps for this week.

Base every rating on the evidence I gave. Where you lack evidence, rate the area "unknown" and say what to check. Don't soften a failing area.
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## What to fill in

- WHAT IT MUST DELIVER, and how success is judged
- PASTE plan, tracker, latest status reports
- plan vs spent vs forecast, if tracked
- WHO IS INVOLVED, any recent changes
- MY GUT SENSE - e.g. "lots of activity but nothing finishes"

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