Most organisations have a problematic approach to potential risks and emerging problems which can cause them to be hidden until they explode. In this session we’ll explore healthier approaches to managing risks and problems in the open.
What is your organisation’s risk management approach?
– Tell people to avoid any kind of risk or there’ll be trouble
– Ignore risks and hope they go away
– Produce a big table of risks that looks important, but doesn’t contain anything that might scare management, then ignore it for the rest of the project
– Actively seek out risks, study them, mitigate them, track them regularly, prepare for them and communicate about them all the time
If you can’t say it’s 100% the last option then you need to come to this session to understand how to embed a healthier approach to risk management in your organisation. At the same time, it’s important that there is a healthy culture and process for your teams to raise and discuss problems they observe in the project. How can you nurture this approach and put in place a process to evaluate problems and develop solutions to create a momentum towards successful delivery?
Steve Parks was part of a project to improve risk management and communications in the government’s tier-one supply chain as part of pandemic preparedness. He’s twice chaired the executive summit of the Business Continuity Institute. He’s now Delivery Lead at digital agency Convivio, working on government digital services, where risk management is key to successful outcomes. He writes business books for Pearson.
@steveparks
Convivio is a UK digital agency that works with government and other large organisations to conceive, design and deliver digital services. We want to help organisations work better for people.
https://weareconvivio.com/
@weareconvivio
So far, this presentation has been given at:
1. Agile on the Beach 2018
4. “Companies have 21st century
internet-enabled business
processes, mid 20th century
management processes, all built
on 19th century management.”
- Gary Hamel
5. Our Mission Today
• Understand stakeholders and understand the
problems
• Review our agile principles and how they apply to risk
• Develop a ‘simplest thing that might work’ that we can
try in real life next week
22. Agile Manifesto
• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan
23. Agile Principles
• Focus on user needs
• Make information visible and usable
• Deliver iteratively
• Keep improving the way you work
• Small experiments to fail cheaply and learn quickly
• Continuously review and plan
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33. Agile Principles
• Focus on user needs
• Make information visible and usable
• Deliver iteratively
• Keep improving the way you work
• Small experiments to fail cheaply and learn quickly
• Continuously review and plan
