Value Streams Inventory and Attributes - Risk Attributes for the Value Streams Inventory

Value Streams Inventory and Attributes

Chapter 26. Risk Attributes for the Value Streams Inventory

Risk attributes capture the known risk profile of each Value Stream — the likelihood and impact of value stream failure or degradation.

Attribute Name	Maturity	Description and Notes
Assessed Risk	Walk	Description — The practitioner’s overall assessment of the risk associated with this Value Stream. Benefit(s) — Surfaces high-risk value streams for priority attention in governance reviews and improvement decisions. Source — Manual Examples — Very High, High, Medium, Low, Very Low Notes — Valid values: Very High \| High \| Medium \| Low \| Very Low. Assessed annually.
Key Risk Factors [Multi-Value]	Walk	Description — The specific factors driving the Assessed Risk rating. Benefit(s) — Translates the overall risk rating into actionable intelligence for mitigation planning. Source — Manual Examples — Single vendor dependency at a critical stage; Manual hand-offs between stages; Long-cycle bottleneck with no redundancy Notes — Separate multiple risk factors with semicolons.