Project Risks Portlet

Overview

Use this portlet to view information about risks that belong to the selected project. You can customize the portlet to specify the columns of information you want to display, as well as the types of risks you want to appear.

Screen Elements

Customize link

Specifies the columns of information you want to display and filters risks based on status.

Category field

The name for a particular type of risk classification. Use risk categories to identify and organize project risks consistently throughout your organization.

Technical, Operational, External are examples of risk categories that might apply to a typical project.

Cause field

The description of the cause of the risk.

Description field

The description of the risk.

Effect field

The resulting effect of the presence of the risk.

ID field

The unique identifier for the risk.

Name field

The name of the risk.

Notes field

The notes or comments entered for the associated with the risk.

Owner field

The resource that has ownership of the risk.

Status field

The status of the response action item. The response action item usually goes through a process from being proposed to sanctioned, and then if it is not rejected it is planned into the project.

  • Proposed: The default status. The action has been proposed.
  • Sanctioned: The action has been proposed and sanctioned.
  • Rejected: The action has been proposed and then rejected. This action is not used to drive the post-response position and its cost is not included in the Total Cost.
  • In-Progress: The response action item has started and there is some work still remaining.
  • Complete: The response action item has been completed.

Type field

The type of risk.

User Defined field

Fields defined by your P6 administrator that are not standard in the application, but are necessary to capture additional data for the project or the company.

Getting Here

  1. Click "" Projects.
  2. On the Projects navigation bar, click "" Workspace.
  3. On the Workspace page, expand the Project Risks portlet.

Related Concepts

About Risks

Working with Project Risks

Customizing Project Workspace


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