Innovation Fundamental: Risks Dashboard and Derisking Meeting
If you’re focusing to create a culture of learning in your team or program, here is a handy tool and checklist for doing just that. It begins with a risks dashboard and includes a few questions to establish a culture of learning.
This is one of the three major practices that I encourage all teams to set up on a recurring basis, along with retrospectives, and a focus on “the one metric that matters” ala innovation accounting.
There are many other agile practices and rituals that are important and valuable. However, this trinity is the most potent foundation that I have seen. I would even prioritize this over things like standups and planning meetings.
Here’s how to get started:
Create a risks dashboard
In his great book Testing with Humans, my friend and customer development guru Giff Constable introduced the concept of a risks dashboard for teams to use to track their progress.
The project’s risks can be captured in it’s leap-of-faith assumptions (LOFAs), to borrow a term from Eric Ries. In Don’t Bet on Your First Business Model–Validate it Early! you can find my recommended way for identifying and prioritizing your assumptions. This will be the setup for your assumptions dashboard.
Then, take these assumptions and track them constantly as your de-risking process.
Here’s what Giff shared:
I really like using the “risks dashboard” that was originally created by my former Neo colleagues Nicole Rufuku and Amanda Lasnik. It puts all of your *important* risks on the board. It forces the team to prioritize what to test and when. It helps everyone see your confidence level around your big risks.
-Giff Constable
1) risky assumptions, 2) a status indicator per assumption on how well or not it is supported by the data coming back, and 3) notes on the data collected so far and what’s needed
Note: for those have have difficulty seeing color, I recommend also putting symbols in the status indicators. Per Giff:
Keep it simple:
grey dot [with an o]: not yet in testing OR currently in testing buy no real data yet
green dot [with a +]: positive data coming back; the more saturated the green, the higher the level of confidence
red dot [with a -]: worrying data coming back; the more saturated the red, the more worried you are about being wrong
– Giff Constable
[bracketed additions are mine]
If you run an innovation project, you can really get a lot out of it.
It’s also very useful if you run and accelerator or incubation type program.
Run a De-risking Meeting
If you coach teams, you may want to do what I do. On my regular meetings with teams, I ask them to share their latest risks dashboard and answer these 4 questions:
- What did you plan to learn this week?
- What did you actually learn this week?
- What did you do to learn it?
- What do you plan to learn next week?
This focuses the team to think about the pace of learning as the most crucial thing when they are still in a phase of uncertainty. It also keeps a focus on prioritized de-risking instead of succumbing to the allure to build, build, build.
Coming soon, you can read the other top practices for teams to use.
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