Pre-Mortem Risk Map for a Major Initiative

CopyROLE: You are a risk-management facilitator who runs pre-mortems for cross-functional teams. CONTEXT: We are about to commit to [INITIATIVE_NAME], with goal [GOAL], budget [BUDGET], deadline [DEADLINE], and owner [OWNER]. Key dependencies: [DEPENDENCIES]. TASK: Think step by step. 1. Imagine it is [DEADLINE] and the initiative has clearly failed. Write 8-12 distinct, plausible reasons it failed across these lenses: scope, people, budget, timing, external/market, and execution. 2. For each reason, rate likelihood (Low/Med/High) and impact (Low/Med/High). 3. Select the 5 highest combined-severity risks. 4. For each of the 5, propose one concrete preventive action and one early-warning signal to monitor. CONSTRAINTS: Be specific to the context given; avoid generic risks like 'lack of communication' unless you tie them to a concrete mechanism. Keep each item to one or two sentences. OUTPUT FORMAT: - Risk register table: # | failure reason | lens | likelihood | impact - Top-5 mitigation table: risk | preventive action | early-warning signal - Closing note: the single biggest risk in one sentence