TOM
DEMARCO’S
EXPERIENTIAL EXERCISE ON RISK
MANAGEMENT
Senior Risk Management Workshop
Risk management
is strategic management for adults. In this one day exercise, Tom DeMarco throws
you into a CIO-level management team and simulates for you the experience of
running an organization where risk management is the norm rather than the
exception. You will make strategic decisions vital to your company’s health and
welfare, aided by risk management artifacts produced for you by your risk
officer and the local risk management efforts going on inside each project of
your domain.
Expect to learn on the fly the use (and potential abuse) of
such risk management tools as risk diagrams, Monte-Carlo simulation,
metrics-based estimation and feedback, EVR (Earned Value Running) diagrams, and
varying degrees of incremental project structures . . . up to and including XP.
The exercise is all example and no abstraction. You learn as you go. Each team
will manage one of the n companies in a highly competitive market sector. A
central simulation will arbitrate, essentially playing the role of the market.
Success or failure of your team’s company will depend on your mix of prudent
risk management with audacious risk-taking. The object of the exercise is to
give you the simulated experience of managing in a company where risk management
is alive and well and fully supported. The benefits of risk management that you
should subsequently be able to introduce into your organization include the
following:
- aggressive risk
taking made possible
- management not
blind-sided by risks that manifest themselves
- maximum protection
from risk with minimum cost and delay
Special Bonus:
Each participant will receive a copy of DeMarco and Lister’s
new book: Waltzing With
Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects [Dorset House, 2003].
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