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ROAM Risk Board

Work a room through its risks: drag each one into resolved, owned, accepted or mitigated, then close the session with a confidence vote.

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This tool is included in the free membership, together with the reading room and the bi-weekly operating note. No card is needed.

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Who it is for

Release Train Engineers, Scrum Masters and facilitators who come out of planning with a list of risks that nobody has yet owned.

How it works

  1. Add each risk with an owner, a due date, and probability and impact on a one-to-five scale.
  2. Drag the cards between the five columns; every move is kept with its date, so the board shows how a risk travelled.
  3. Read the analytics view — status split, a five-by-five heat map, ageing and workload per owner — then run the confidence vote to close.

Questions

Is the ROAM board free?
Yes. It is part of the free membership and costs nothing. You do need a free account, because the board is saved to it and comes back on your next device.
Can participants vote from their own phone?
Not on this board. The confidence vote is run on the facilitator screen for up to ten named people, and it can be taken anonymously.
What does the risk score mean?
Probability multiplied by impact, from one to twenty-five, banded low, medium and high. Cards past their due date and still unresolved are marked overdue.

Included in the free Explorer membership. Create a free account to open it; no card is needed.

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