Maintain a RAID and decision log

Control principle

Make uncertainty visible early enough to choose a response.

Risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and decisions are scattered across meeting notes, email, chat, and individual memory.

Use it in the active phase

Start with these controls

1. Separate risks, assumptions, active issues, external dependencies, and decisions.
2. Give each item an owner, next action, due date, effect, and escalation threshold.
3. Review the highest exposure items in every delivery checkpoint.
4. Close items with evidence and keep the decision that changed the plan.

Pause point

Do not let schedule pressure erase nonprofit ownership

A log is not progress by itself. Escalate safety, privacy, security, financial, accessibility, legal, or mission-impact concerns through the responsible process.