Risk Manager

View Risks in a matix directly inside Azure DevOps dashboards. Risk Manager helps teams identify, record, and assess risks alongside their YouTrack work. Use structured tables and a customizable matrix to visualize inherent and residual risk levels, track treatments, and keep reporting consistent.

Table of contents

• Why Risk Manager
• How it works
• Screenshots
• Features
• Limitations & notes
• Support
• Privacy & data
• Permissions

Why Risk Manager

• Assess risks directly on issues with quick risk level controls.
• Review risks in a sortable register with links to underlying issues.
• Visualize inherent vs. residual risk in a customizable matrix.
• Track treatments and status updates in one view.

How it works

1. Add Risk work items and set Impact and Probability field.
2. Add the Risk Matrix dashboard widget
3. View the Risk Matrix on the dashboard

Screenshots

Compare risks

Configuration

Features

• Adds a dedicated Risk Matrix widget that is used on dashboards.
• Displays Impact and Probability
• Visualize inherent vs. residual risk in a customizable matrix.

Limitations & notes

• The matrix supports fields with the data type Picklist

Support

For help or questions, contact support@rixter.se or use the support portal: https://rixter.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/2

Please include your Azure DevOps organization name and organization ID.

Privacy & data

Risk Manager stores the minimal configuration needed to display Risks in your Azure DevOps dashboards. We as a vendor can never access your app data. It does not modify the work items.

Permissions

The extension requests these scopes for specific reasons:

• vso.extension.data: read configuration and stored link metadata for rendering.
• vso.extension.data_write: save configuration and link metadata in your organization.
• vso.graph: verify that the user purchasing/installing the app is a Project Collection Administrator.
• vso.memberentitlementmanagement: read the number of billable users in the Azure DevOps organization to determine the correct app license tier.
• vso.work: read work items and related field data so the widget can display risks in the matrix.
• vso.work_write: create or update Risk work items and persist changes made through the extension.