Risk & Issue
The Risk & Issue screen is the project's risk register: you list risks (potential events) and issues (materialized ones), assess them and track their handling. You reach it from the Risk & Issue menu in the project sidebar.
Risk or Issue
Each entry is typed:
- Risk — a potential event that could affect the project
- Issue — a materialized risk, to be handled
Assessing a risk
A risk is assessed on two axes, on a four-level scale (Low / Medium / High / Critical):
- Probability — the chance the risk occurs
- Impact — the severity of its consequences
FoxPlan derives the Criticality, which prioritizes the risks to watch first.
Each entry also carries:
- a status: Open, Pending, Ongoing, Closed
- an owner (responsible for follow-up)
- a description and a mitigation plan
The risk matrix
Alongside the list, the Risk matrix positions risks on a Probability × Impact grid, with a color code (Low, Medium, High, Critical). Statistics accompany the matrix:
- Total risks
- Critical
- Open
It's the ideal committee view: it shows the concentration of major risks at a glance.
See also
- The project Weather report — the overall indicator summarizing project health
- Decision — record decisions taken to handle a risk
- Project members — who can edit the register
Review the matrix at each committee and focus the action plan on Critical and High risks that are still Open.