Risk

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Risk is a Drupal module which helps in the recording and managing of risks.

Details

The module allows the creation of risk event class node types. These risk event classes have the following properties:

Title
A title e.g. "Hard Drive Failure".
Description
A description e.g. "A complete failure of our server's hard drive resulting in the total loss of all data."
Mean
The expected mean number of occurances of this event per day. This is often a very small number e.g. 2.74E-4 = 0.000274 would correspond to about 1 failure every 10 years.
Profit
The total profit (positive) or loss (negative) associated with the event e.g. cost of new hard drive + administrators time to install and restore from backups + loss of buisness due to downtime etc.

The module calculates some useful summary statistics using the Poisson distribution (which may or may not be appropriate) e.g. probability of 0 events in a specified period (default 30 days), probability of 1 or more events in the specified period, expected profit in the specified period.

The module also has two blocks:

  • Most Exciting Risks which displays the events which are expected to cause the most profit.
  • Most Scary Risks which displays the events which are expected to cause the most losses.

The risk module is currently compatible with Druapl 6.x installations.

For more information visit the Risk project page on drupal.org.