RAID logs
RAID = Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies. The single most important governance artefact on any project. Sageon Business makes them easy to log, track and roll up.
Quick definitions
| Letter | What | When to log it |
|---|---|---|
| Risk | Something that might happen and would hurt the project | When you spot a credible threat |
| Assumption | Something you're betting on being true | When you make a decision that depends on it |
| Issue | Something that has happened and is hurting the project | Immediately when it bites |
| Dependency | Something outside this project you need from somewhere else | When you need someone else to deliver |
Sageon also supports Lessons and Stakeholders in the same table — same UI, different type value.
Logging an item
From inside a project:
- Click the RAID tab
- Click + New and pick the type (Risk, Assumption, Issue, Dependency, Lesson, Stakeholder)
- Fill in:
- Title — short, action-oriented ("Supplier may miss UAT" beats "Supplier problem")
- Description — context for someone who'll read this in 3 months and not remember
- Owner — one person, not a team. Accountability needs a name.
- Probability + Impact (very low → very high) — Sageon calculates a score
- Mitigation — what you're doing about it
- Target date — when this needs to be resolved or reviewed
Sageon auto-generates a reference like RSK-003 so you can refer to items in stand-ups and reports.
Or ask Sage to do it
You can also tell Sage in plain English:
"Log a high-impact risk on Customer Portal: supplier might miss the UAT deadline. Owner Sarah. Mitigation: source backup supplier by Friday. Target end of June."
Sage will draft the entry, show you a confirmation card, and create it when you click Confirm.
Good RAID hygiene
- Review weekly. Open items get stale fast. Close, re-score, or re-assign every Monday.
- One owner per item. Joint ownership = no ownership.
- Mitigation should be an action, not a hope. "Plan B identified" beats "hope it works out".
- Close items when they're done. A 200-row RAID full of resolved items is useless.
Rollup
Open RAID counts roll up automatically to programme and portfolio level. A portfolio dashboard showing "24 open risks across 12 projects" is one query away.