A project can go wrong in ways nobody has put on the board yet: a vendor may miss a cutover, a key person may leave, an approval may stall. The Risks register is where a project’s team writes those down, scores them, names an owner and ties them to the work that threatens or protects the project. Plankwork then tells you when each risk needs another look, so the register does not go stale.

Plankwork has a register on each board ordered by how urgent each risk is, a severity matrix, links from a risk to the tasks it threatens and the tasks that mitigate it, review reminders, and a one-page Risks report. The registers of all your projects feed Portfolio risks.

The full chapter, with every step and setting, is in the app: open your account menu and select User manual.