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Project Risk Management Software

Smartsheet helps you identify threats early, automate response plans, and keep projects on track with a secure, flexible project risk management platform.

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Why use Smartsheet for project risk management?

Smartsheet enables teams to move risk management out of static spreadsheets and into an active, automated platform. Centralize risk registers, trigger alerts when risk levels change, and act on issues before they affect schedules or budgets. Gain real-time visibility into risk probability and impact, ensuring stakeholders stay informed and mitigation plans are executed on time.

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Identify project risks early

Spot threats before they become problems

  • Capture risks in a central register instead of scattered spreadsheets
  • Assess probability and impact to surface the most critical issues
  • Use reports and dashboards to monitor risk exposure across projects
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Turn risk plans into action

Make every risk accountable and trackable

  • Assign a clear owner for every risk
  • Document mitigation and contingency plans in one place
  • Trigger alerts and reminders when risks require attention
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Maintain real-time visibility across projects

See risk status without manual reporting

  • Update status as risks open, change, or close
  • Roll up risk data across multiple initiatives
  • Share live dashboards with leadership and stakeholders

Key features for project risk management in Smartsheet

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Connect risk data across your ecosystem

Smartsheet integrates seamlessly with the tools your team already relies on like Jira, Github, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, Salesforce, and more. Automatically sync work between systems, streamline communication, and reduce manual updates, ensuring everyone works from the same real-time data.

Smartsheet in action for project risk management

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Tanium accelerates risk analysis and response

Developed a holistic view of risk with real-time data

The Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team at Tanium, a global cybersecurity leader, uses Smartsheet to streamline how risks are reported and assessed. 

The team replaced emails and calls with a form-based solution that uses automated workflows to prioritize and route each issue. 

This creates a single view of risk instead of tracking threats in isolation, allowing Tanium to correlate data, spot trends, and act faster.

Taking all the information that comes in for a specific concern and forcing it into a funnel increases the speed with which we can analyze it. Instead of pulling keywords out of a paragraph or reading between the lines, we’ve got drop-downs that help us figure out what the submitter is really concerned about. Then we can report and act on the data much faster, and it’s correlated and organized so we can quickly see trends.

Hunter Outlaw

Program Manager, IT, Tanium

Project risk management for teams across any industry

Pre-built project risk management template solutions

Start faster with templates designed to organize, score, and manage project risk in one workflow. Customize them for your process and scale them across teams.

Smartsheet vs. Excel

Which platform is built for project risk management?

Features

Smartsheet

Microsoft Excel

DashboardsInteractive dashboards and live metrics    Static charts requiring manual updates
Workflow automationBuilt-in automation for tasks, alerts, routing, and approvalsManual processes requiring macros or add-ons
Resource managementReal-time workload views, utilization tracking, and capacity forecastingManual tracking, high risk of outdated data
Real-time collaborationComments, versioning, file sharingLimited and prone to duplication
Portfolio visibilityDashboards roll up project data across teamsNo automatic roll up across files

Project Risk Management Software FAQs

Yes. Smartsheet supports automated risk intake and assessment through customizable forms and formulas. You can set up columns to automatically calculate risk scores and use conditional formatting to flag high-priority and remove manual work from your process. Risks are surfaced through dashboards so teams can quickly identify which threats need immediate attention.

Yes. Smartsheet offers project risk management templates such as risk registers and risk matrices. These templates provide a pre-built structure to gather risks, evaluate their likelihood and impact, and track mitigation plans. You can start tracking and mitigating risks immediately without building anything from scratch.

Yes. You can build a formal risk response plan inside Smartsheet. Assign owners to specific risks, set clear mitigation deadlines, track the live status of response actions, and attach detailed contingency plans or supporting documents directly to the relevant risk row.

Smartsheet connects risk registers across projects and shows them in roll-up dashboards and reports. Leaders can compare exposure, spot trends, and prioritize mitigation work across portfolios with a clear, real-time view of overall risk.

Yes. Smartsheet allows you to archive project sheets and logs to maintain a historical record. Teams can easily review this data during future project planning to identify recurring threats, improve estimation accuracy, and refine future mitigation strategies.