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For delivery leads and PMOs

A risk register that updates itself.

The columns are easy. Keeping the rows true is the work. Husn reads your tools and keeps likelihood, impact, status, and mitigation reflecting what is actually happening.

Husn reads your tools - never changes them

Register review, this morning3 to know
  • A risk scored low in the register has had its blocker reopened twice this week in Jira.
    Risk
  • A mitigation marked in progress has had no ticket activity for nine days.
    Watch
  • A new dependency risk surfaced in Slack that has no row in the register yet.
    Changed
1 re-score needed - 1 stalled mitigation - 1 new risk
The problem

Project risk register template

A risk register is only useful when it is current, and current is exactly what hand maintained registers are not. Rows get added during a scare and then go quiet, so the register describes the project as it was, not as it is.

  • Likelihood and impact are set once and rarely revisited, so the scoring drifts from reality within a sprint.
  • Mitigations are logged as actions but nobody checks whether the underlying ticket actually moved.
  • New risks appear in Slack and Jira long before anyone remembers to add a row for them.
Why this gets hard at scale

Why registers decay

01

Every column needs upkeep, and the person who owns the register is rarely the person watching each affected ticket.

02

The register lives apart from the work, so a closed risk and a reopened blocker can sit out of sync for days.

03

On a large program there are too many rows for any one person to re-score honestly each week.

How Husn helps
Step 01Husn identifies new risks from tickets, threads, and updates and proposes rows with the source already attached.
Step 02It watches the work behind each entry, so when a mitigation stalls or an impact grows, the register reflects it.
Step 03Status changes on their own as the underlying tickets and threads move, so the register tracks the project rather than lagging it.

Husn reads and reasons, and never changes your tools.

What is inside

The sections, in the order leaders read them.

  1. 01Risk, a plain language description of the exposure and what it threatens.
  2. 02Owner, the single person accountable for tracking and acting on it.
  3. 03Likelihood, how probable the risk is, re-scored against current activity.
  4. 04Impact, what it costs in time, scope, or commitments if it lands.
  5. 05Status, where the risk stands now, kept in step with the underlying tickets.
  6. 06Mitigation, the action in flight and whether its ticket is actually moving.
Use cases

Honest re-scoring

See which entries no longer match the work, so likelihood and impact reflect this week rather than the day the row was created.

Mitigation tracking

Know when a mitigation has stalled because its ticket went quiet, before the risk it was meant to cover lands.

No missed risks

Catch risks raised in Jira and Slack that never made it into the register, while there is still time to plan.

Who this is for

Built for the people who have to keep it all straight.

  • Program and delivery managers
  • PMO and risk owners
  • Heads of engineering
  • Chiefs of staff
FAQ

Questions, answered.

  • What columns does the register use?

    The standard set: risk, owner, likelihood, impact, status, and mitigation. Husn maps what it finds in your tools into those fields, so you keep a familiar format and gain rows that stay current.

  • How does Husn keep rows up to date?

    It reads the tickets, threads, and documents behind each entry. When a blocker reopens or a mitigation stalls, the status and scoring update to match what the work now shows.

  • Will it edit our register or tools?

    Husn never writes to Jira, Slack, or your documents. It surfaces what changed and why, and you decide how the register reflects it. The reasoning is read only.

  • Can it catch risks we forgot to log?

    Yes. Husn identifies risks forming in the work even when no row exists yet, and flags them with their source so you can add and score them before they cost you.

Automatically identify risks from meetings, tickets, and updates.

Keep your risk register true to the work.

Connect Jira, Slack, and your docs and Husn will keep each register row scored against what is actually happening, in about fifteen minutes.