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Risk register template with a 5×5 matrix

A register where each risk’s score and zone work themselves out, and a separate sheet shows how many risks sit in each cell of the matrix.

Download .xlsx

Excel, 12 KB. No macros, no sign-up.

What is inside

  • The “Risk register” sheet: the risk as “cause → event → consequence”, category, probability, impact, score, zone, owner, response, review date, status and linked work.
  • Score is probability × impact; the zone is red from 15, amber from 8, green otherwise.
  • The “Matrix” sheet: the number of risks in each of the 25 cells.
  • An “Instructions” sheet.

How to use it

  1. Describe a risk in one sentence: what may happen, why, and what it leads to.
  2. Rate probability and impact with whole numbers from 1 to 5 — the score and zone appear by themselves.
  3. Give every red and amber risk an owner and a response.
  4. Review the register at regular project meetings and close risks that no longer apply.

How it looks in Etapero

In Etapero the register of risks, problems and assumptions lives in a project’s Risks section, the matrix is built automatically, and red-zone risks show in the project overview and the portfolio. Loading a register from Excel into Etapero is not available yet.

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