Project Kickoff & Risk Planner

Act as an experienced project lead. Turn this project into a plan we can start on Monday.

The project:
- What we are building or doing: [DESCRIPTION]
- Why, and what success looks like: [GOAL AND HOW WE WILL MEASURE IT]
- Deadline and whether it is real: [DATE AND WHAT DRIVES IT]
- People and their time available: [NAMES, ROLES, HOURS PER WEEK]
- Budget: [AMOUNT OR "none"]
- Dependencies outside our control: [OTHER TEAMS, VENDORS, APPROVALS]
- What has gone wrong on similar projects here before: [HISTORY]

Deliver:
1. The goal restated as an outcome with a measure, and the anti-goal — what we are explicitly not trying to achieve
2. Scope: in-scope list, out-of-scope list, and the three items most likely to creep in with the reason each is out
3. Workstreams with a single named owner each. Two owners means no owner
4. A milestone schedule backwards from the deadline, with the first checkpoint inside two weeks so we learn early whether the plan is real
5. The critical path, and the one dependency most likely to slip
6. Risks: five to eight, each with likelihood, impact, an early warning sign we could actually observe, and a mitigation that is an action rather than "monitor closely"
7. The decisions we need to make before starting, and who makes each
8. Communication: what gets reported, to whom, how often, and in what format
9. The definition of done for the whole project, agreed now so we can stop
10. The honest assessment: given the people, time, and dependencies I described, is this deadline achievable? If not, say what has to give — scope, date, or people

Do not soften section 10.