Risk Reduction Signals(3.6.10)

After a change in how a team works (a new process, a team reshuffle, a focused sprint on debt reduction), the question is whether the risk measures moved. This visual detects positive risk reduction signals: weeks where multiple risk indicators simultaneously improved, which is harder to explain as a temporary dip than a single improving signal.

For teams preparing a compliance review, reviewers often ask to see not only where risk rose but where and when it fell afterward.

What you can conclude

• A project showing simultaneous reduction in two or more risk signals over consecutive weeks has several measures improving together; a reviewer could ask what changed in that project.
• A project where one signal improves while others worsen shows a trade-off between measures rather than a broad improvement.
• A project with no reduction signals over an extended period has had no week in which several measures improved together.

How this chart works

Line chart showing week-over-week change in each risk signal component per project. Positive values indicate deterioration; negative values indicate improvement. Weeks where multiple signals improve simultaneously are the positive reduction pattern to look for. A reopen counts an issue leaving a terminal status classified as delivered under your terminal-status settings; revivals of issues closed as abandoned are carried in the abandoned exit count, not counted as reopens.

The week in progress is shown at its raw count so far. Because the week is not yet complete, it carries no week-over-week change.