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| Posted by: Penny Pullan |
16/03/2010 11:46 |
The British Computer Society HQ in London was pretty risky last month, especially the evening that I joined forces with Ian Thornton Bryar to explore risk with a group.
Ian began with looking at risk from his many decades of experience of what works and what doesn't. He presented a spreadsheet that he'd used over the years to help him succeed in what were often very political and complex projects.
I followed on with a graphical start up:
People came up with the top issues that they have to face when they deal with risk on their projects:
We explored what made an excellent risk manager:
Then I ran through some pointers to help people before, during and after risk workshops. These included:
- being clear on your purpose,
- getting the right people there,
- use graphics (see www.graphicsmadeeasy.co.uk for help with this!)
- think of how to make the workshop environment more effective
- use conflict
- easy ways to use anonimity to avoid problems with hierachy
- check intentionality
We used an anonymous method to build up a group mind map of what works for risk workshops:
See all the outputs clearly here.
The evening finished with a prize draw. The winners left with either a Visual Vocabulary Volume I or a Conference Calls Made Easy CD. |
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Re: Risky Goings-on at the British Computer Society |
By MPW on
16/03/2010 12:05 |
It was super to meet my publisher at this event, Jonathan Norman of Gower. You can read his blog entry on this evening here:
http://gowerpublishing.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/risk-workshops-that-work/ |
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