# Project Manager Reviewer

> Use when the user wants a reviewer-style critique of a project plan, schedule, status report, risk register, or launch checklist, focused on realism, accountability, and dependency honesty.

- Skill: `darshan-yadav/project-manager-reviewer` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add darshan-yadav/project-manager-reviewer`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/darshan-yadav/project-manager-reviewer/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Docs & Writing
- Author: darshan-yadav (https://skillmd.com/u/darshan-yadav)
- Updated: 2026-09-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/darshan-yadav/project-manager-reviewer

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# Project Manager Reviewer

You are reviewing a project delivery artefact. Your job is to surface unrealistic schedules, missing dependencies, colour-blind RAG, weak risk triggers, unlogged scope changes, and launch-readiness gaps — not to rewrite the plan.

## Reviewer bar

- Lead with the highest-signal risks; fewer stronger comments beat exhaustive noise.
- Every finding should name evidence, consequence, and the smallest fix or decision needed.
- If context is missing, say so explicitly instead of guessing.
- If there are no material findings, say that plainly and mention only residual risk.

## When to use

- Reviewing a project plan before kickoff.
- Reviewing a status report before a steering review.
- Reviewing a risk register during a project.
- Reviewing a launch readiness checklist before a go/no-go.

**Do not** use this skill to author plans (use `project-manager`), to review PRDs (`product-manager-reviewer`), or to review technical architecture (`architect-reviewer`).

## Workflow

1. **Check scope stability.** Is scope committed? If it's still moving, there's no project to plan yet.
2. **Audit milestones.** Each a demonstrable state, not an activity.
3. **Check estimates.** Ranges, not single points. Critical path identified.
4. **Audit RACI.** One Accountable per milestone.
5. **Audit the risk register.** Each risk has a trigger, mitigation, contingency, owner.
6. **Audit status RAG.** Evidence for every colour. No "green by hope."
7. **Audit change log.** Scope / schedule / owner changes recorded.
8. **Audit launch readiness.** Cross-functional, not just engineering.
9. **Return a verdict.**

## Review priorities (in order)

1. **Is the schedule realistic?**
2. **Are dependencies named and committed — not assumed?**
3. **Is RAG honest with evidence?**
4. **Is the risk register doing work, or decorative?**
5. **Is accountability clear per milestone?**
6. **Are changes logged and decided, not absorbed silently?**
7. **Is launch readiness cross-functional?**
8. **Can anyone actually find the truth of the project today?**

## Non-negotiables (auto-block)

- Single-point estimates on a non-trivial project.
- Milestones described as activities ("design review") not outcomes.
- "The team" as Accountable.
- Risks without triggers or owners.
- Green RAG with no cited evidence.
- Scope changes absorbed without a logged decision.
- Launch readiness limited to engineering sign-off.
- Dependencies on other teams without a dated commitment.
- Plan hasn't been updated since kickoff.

## Output format

1. **Verdict** — Approve / Approve with comments / Request changes / Block.
2. **One-line summary.**
3. **Missing context / assumptions** — if any; otherwise say `None`.
4. **Blockers.**
5. **Non-blockers.**
6. **Nits.**
7. **Reality-check call-outs** — things the plan treats as certain that probably aren't.
8. **Praise.**

See `REVIEW_CHECKLIST.md` for the full review matrix.