Risk Register User Guide (Cloud)
Risk Register by ProjectBalm helps teams capture, assess, treat and monitor risk directly in Jira. It combines structured risk management with Jira’s familiar tracking, workflow and collaboration capabilities.
At a glance
Use Risk Register to record risks, assess likelihood and impact, assign ownership, link treatment work and report on risk exposure through registers, matrices and dashboard views.
What you can do with Risk Register
Record project, product and organisational risks in Jira.
Assess risk magnitude using configurable probability and impact values.
Assign risks and treatment actions to responsible team members.
Collaborate through Jira comments, workflow status and linked work items.
Monitor risk exposure using the Risk Register and Risk Matrix views.
Compare inherent risk and residual risk to understand treatment effectiveness over time.
Create registers from a Jira project or from a saved filter that you define.
Designed for Jira teams
Risk Register builds on Jira’s existing strengths, including issue tracking, workflow management, ownership, history and reporting, so teams can manage risks without moving to a separate system.
Need help?
Explore the topics below for more information and detailed guidance.
- Application permissions
- Viewing the list of risk registers
- Creating a risk register
- Configuring a risk register
- Configuring a project
- Viewing risk registers and matrices
- Risk Foundry
- Creating and assessing risks
- Displaying risks in a dashboard
- Displaying risks in Confluence
- Administering the application
- Training videos