Project Risk Ranking(4.2.8)

Sometimes you need a simple ranked list: which projects are the most problematic, in order. This table provides exactly that — all projects ranked by current composite risk score, with the week-over-week trend and risk tier classification. It is the starting point for every executive risk review meeting.

What you can conclude

• Projects at the top of the table with a worsening trend require immediate attention — they are both high-risk and getting worse.
• Projects at the top with an improving trend are high-risk but moving the right way; the next weeks show whether the improvement holds.
• Projects at the bottom of the table with stable low scores recorded few bypasses and reopens relative to their transitions.

How this chart works

Ranked table showing all projects ordered by current composite risk score. Columns: project name, current score, week-over-week change, and risk tier (Low, Moderate, Elevated, Critical). A project shows no week-over-week change value, rather than 0, whenever the comparison cannot be made: when its first measured week is the current one, and whenever the current week is still in progress. The score is the share of the project's status transitions that deviated, weighted toward bypasses (a move straight from an unstarted status to a terminal one) over reopens, so 0 means every transition was ordinary and 100 means every one was a bypass. Tiers follow the score: Critical at 70 and above, Elevated 50–70, Moderate 30–50, Low below 30.

This card reads each project's latest complete week and does not count the week in progress. Projects report in different weeks, so the card names no single week.

A project-week carrying fewer than 10 status transitions is not scored: the score and the risk tier are both left empty rather than filled in with a number and a badge. An empty score is not a zero and not a low score: it means the week held too few transitions for the score to distinguish one from another. At 2 transitions only six scores are reachable at all—0.0, 41.7, 50.0, 83.3, 91.7 and 100.0—and a single bypass lands on 50.0, which reads as an ordinary middling result rather than as the two-event reading it is. A project showing a measured 0.0 with 10 or more transitions is a different statement and is drawn differently.