Dash360 Risk: Lite vs Pro
Dash360 Risk manages project risk in the same platform as your estimate, budget, and schedule — no separate risk tool, no re-keying, no reconciling spreadsheets. Every risk you log is tied to your WBS, work packages, and activities, so risk analysis reads from the same numbers your project already runs on.
- Lite gives every team a structured, quantified risk register with a single-point cost Monte Carlo — enough to identify, rank, and report risk with real numbers.
- Pro adds the full quantitative engine: multi-mode Monte Carlo across cost and schedule, mitigation (Risk → Mitigated) analytics, contingency decomposition, and burndown tracking over time.
Risk analysis that lives inside your cost and schedule.
Start with Lite. Upgrade when you’re ready to quantify.
Every risk you log in Lite — including the schedule and cost-impact detail — carries straight into Pro. Upgrading unlocks the analytics; it never asks you to re-enter your data.
Lite vs Pro: At a Glance
What Every Tier Gets
Lite is a complete risk-management workflow on its own.
- A structured register: Log threats and opportunities, assign a handling strategy (Mitigate, Transfer, Accept, Avoid, Exploit, Enhance, Share), owner, and status — with every risk tied to the WBS/work packages it affects.
- Quantified, not just qualitative: Probability and cost impact feed a heatmap and a single-point cost Monte Carlo, so Lite users get an S-curve and percentile summary (P10/P50/P80…), not just a red/yellow/green grid.
- Mitigation tracking: Response Actions capture what you’re doing about each risk and roll up into a Mitigated view.
- Total Exposure at a glance: A running Risk-vs-Mitigated cost and schedule summary across the currently filtered risks.
- Data quality built in: The Risk Quality Check Report flags incomplete risks so the register stays trustworthy.
What Pro Unlocks
Pro turns the register into a full quantitative risk analysis environment. Each section below maps to a feature that is grayed out in Lite with an “upgrade” prompt.
1. Full Monte Carlo Depth — Cost and Schedule
What it is: Lite runs a single “Risk Events Only” cost simulation. Pro unlocks the additional simulation modes (modeling baseline estimate uncertainty alongside discrete risk events) and runs the same rigor against the schedule, not just cost.
Who it’s for: Estimators and cost/schedule analysts who need defensible contingency and confidence levels.
Why it matters: “How much contingency, at what confidence?” — answered for both dollars and days, from the same risk data.
2. Monte Carlo by WBS, Contingency Decomposition & Sensitivity
What it is: Pro breaks a simulation down by WBS, decomposes the recommended contingency to its risk drivers, and ranks cost-structure sensitivity (which inputs move the outcome most).
Who it’s for: PMs allocating contingency and briefing stakeholders on where risk concentrates.
Why it matters: Turns a single project-level number into an auditable, allocable story — essential for gov-contract and stage-gate reviews.
3. Schedule Risk Analysis + Compare Simulations
What it is: Run schedule risk against activity durations and compare saved simulations side by side.
Who it’s for: Schedulers and PMs quantifying schedule confidence and testing mitigation scenarios.
Why it matters: See the delta between “before” and “after” a mitigation, or between scenarios, instead of eyeballing two runs.
4. Cost & Schedule Uncertainty Cascade
What it is: A structured cascade that traces how cost and schedule uncertainty flows through the project hierarchy.
Who it’s for: Analysts who need to see uncertainty roll up the WBS, not just a top-line result.
Why it matters: Shows the structure of uncertainty, not only its total.
5. Delta Analysis — Risk + Mitigated movement
What it is: Quantifies the movement from the gross Risk position to the Mitigated position — how much exposure your response actions actually buy back.
Who it’s for: Anyone who has to justify the ROI of mitigation effort.
Why it matters: Proves mitigation value in dollars and days, per risk and in aggregate.
6. Risk Analytics Burndown — exposure over time
What it is: Nine risk charts and graphs like burndown/burnup of risk exposure over the project timeline, with WBS exposure breakdowns and risk/activity driver charts.
Who it’s for: PMs tracking whether the risk profile is actually improving.
Why it matters: Turns risk from a point-in-time snapshot into a managed trend you can report on.
