Project Risk Prompt Generator

What this generator does

Draws a category of project risk to think about. Risk registers are usually written by asking what could go wrong, which reliably produces the risks the team already discusses — a category prompt reaches the ones nobody has mentioned.

What you'll get

This generator draws from a hand-checked list of 8 entries. Here is a spread of 6 of them, so you can see the style before you generate:

• What happens if the person doing the most critical work is suddenly unavailable?
• What assumption are we making that we haven't actually verified?
• What's the dependency most likely to slip, and what's our backup plan?
• What's the quietest warning sign we might be ignoring right now?
• What happens if the scope grows but the deadline doesn't move?
• What's the one thing that, if it went wrong, would be hardest to recover from?

A fixed sample of the list, not a live draw — your own results are picked at random from all 8, without repeating until the list runs out. Original authoring for Generate Random — general project-planning risk prompts.. Last reviewed 2026-07-18.

How to use this tool

1. Press generate for a question.
2. Discuss it with your project team.

Common use cases

• Project-planning risk reviews
• Sprint-planning discussions
• Pre-mortem exercises

Randomness and fairness

Categories are drawn uniformly with the browser's cryptographic random number generator, with no weighting by how likely a category is to matter for your project.

For how randomness is produced across the whole site, see how Generate Random works.

Practical tips

• Run through five or six categories rather than one; the value is in coverage.
• For each risk, write what would tell you it is happening. A risk with no early signal cannot be managed.
• This is a prompt for discussion, not a risk assessment methodology — use your organisation's own framework for anything formal.