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A free RAID log you can use right now

Most RAID logs die in week three. Not because the team stopped caring, but because the tool was heavier than the habit. Someone built a beautiful tracker at kickoff, with twelve columns and a scoring rubric, and by month two it was a tab nobody opened.

This one is one screen. Type the entry, score probability and impact, name an owner, come back next week. Everything saves in your browser, on your device. No login, no server, no install.

Built by a Director of Program Management, 20+ years across enterprise programs in tech, retail, and aerospace.

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Type Description Probability Impact Score Owner Status Delete

How to run the 15-minute weekly review

A RAID log is not a document. It is a meeting agenda. If you are not reviewing it, you do not have one. Here is the rhythm I run on every program, fifteen minutes, once a week, same slot:

  1. Issues first. What is blocking delivery this week? Every open issue gets an owner, an action, and an ETA before you move on. An issue open three weeks or more gets escalated, not re-discussed.
  2. Walk the top five risks by score. Has probability or impact moved since last week? If a risk has sat at the same score for a month with no mitigation, either mitigate it or admit you are accepting it.
  3. Check the dependencies. Is anyone you are waiting on slipping? Flag the slip in this week's status report, not next week's. A dependency surprise is almost always a dependency you stopped asking about.
  4. Promote, demote, close. Risks that happened become issues. Assumptions that broke become risks. Resolved items get closed with a date. Anything stale gets an action this week or gets killed.

Fifteen minutes, every week, one named person running it. That is the difference between a living RAID log and archive material.

This is the lite version

It will hold a small program's RAID entries and run your weekly review. When the log becomes the tool you open every day, you will want more than one flat table.

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