risk-cycle

Track and manage risks across the Software Development Life Cycle.

175|26|Updated Aug 14, 2025
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/jmagly/ai-writing-guide --skill risk-cycle
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Skill: risk-cycle
Source: https://github.com/jmagly/ai-writing-guide/tree/main/.factory/skills/risk-cycle
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/jmagly/ai-writing-guide --skill risk-cycle

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

💡 This Skill requires project-awareness, artifact-metadata, decision-support, and includes references (resource) components.

What problem does it solve?

This Skill eliminates the manual overhead of tracking project risks by automatically identifying, assessing, and monitoring threats throughout the SDLC.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Continuous Risk Monitoring: Automatically tracks and updates risk status across technical, project, and external categories.
  • Automated Mitigation Tracking: Continuously monitors risk mitigation progress and escalates overdue items.
  • Real-time Risk Dashboard: Generates instant visibility into critical risks with automated escalation and reporting.

Quick Start

When you say "risk review", this Skill loads your current risk register, checks mitigation status, identifies overdue items, and prompts for new risks.

Example Output

"Risk Review Summary

Current Status:

  • Critical: 1 (RISK-001: DB Scalability) ← Action needed
  • High: 3
  • Medium: 8
  • Low: 12

Mitigation Progress: ✅ RISK-001: 60% complete (on track) ⚠️ RISK-005: Security audit 2 days overdue

Top Priority: RISK-001 needs connection pooling by Dec 15

Questions:

  1. Any new risks identified this week?
  2. Update on RISK-005 delay?"

Frequently Asked Questions about risk-cycle

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I automate risk tracking throughout my software development project?

Risk tracking automation identifies, assesses, and monitors threats across your SDLC by scoring probability and impact, calculating exposure, and prioritizing risks. It tracks mitigation progress, escalates overdue items, and generates dashboards—eliminating manual overhead in Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid environments.

Can I use risk management across different project methodologies like Agile and Waterfall?

Yes. This approach supports continuous risk monitoring across Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid SDLCs. It adapts to your workflow by tracking risks in technical, project, and external categories regardless of your development methodology.

How do I prioritize risks and assign mitigation actions with target dates?

Risk prioritization calculates exposure scores from probability and impact, ranks risks by severity, and assigns owners to define mitigation actions with target dates. The system tracks progress and escalates overdue items automatically for stakeholder visibility.

What should I do before starting a risk review with my team?

Before a risk review, ensure your project artifacts and decision records are current. The risk review loads your existing risk register, checks mitigation status, identifies overdue items, and prompts for new risks identified since the last review.

Do I need to manually update risk status, or can I track mitigation progress automatically?

Mitigation tracking is automated. The system continuously monitors risk status updates and mitigation progress, escalates overdue items, and generates real-time dashboards and stakeholder reports without manual intervention.

How does risk management integrate with project awareness and decision tracking?

Risk management connects to project-awareness data and decision-support records to contextualize threats within your project scope and documented decisions. This integration ensures risks reflect current project state and decision impacts throughout the SDLC.