Risk scoring matrix

Score a risk before any response, then again assuming the response works. The reduction between the two is the number worth taking to the board.

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Scores one risk, on one day, by hand. No memory, no register, no link to a plan. It is a thinking aid, not a system of record.

Inherent, residual, and the score nobody writes down

Most risk registers record one number per row. The number that actually justifies spending money is the distance between two of them.