Risk & Decisions · How-to
Run a Risk Register with the MIL-STD-882E Scale
Set the project risk scale, record and rate risks, plan mitigations and follow each risk down over time.
- Open Risk & Decisions → Risk Register and click Edit Risk Matrix…. Choose the MIL-STD-882E preset (or Default 5 × 5) and adjust the likelihood and consequence definitions and the level of each cell. The scale applies to the whole project.
- Click + New Risk. In the inspector, set Probability, Consequence, Status, Owner, Handling (Accept, Avoid, Transfer, Mitigate, Watch), Trigger and Need-by Date. To draft risks with AI, select an item and choose ✦ AI ▾ → Generate Risks….
- Link each mitigation: add the action or task to the risk's mitigated by relationship, with Start and Duration so the plan has dates. Set the residual probability and consequence expected after mitigation.
- Review the register: sort by Level, filter by level, status or handling, and edit Status, Owner and Handling in place.
- Open the risk's burn-down (Burn-down beside its name). Record Snapshot stores today's rating; Mitigation Plan… shows the planned step-down at each mitigation's completion date.
- See all risks on the matrix with Risk & Decisions → Risk Diagrams, and download the register with Export ▾.