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Introduction to the RiskWiki
This wiki is sponsored by Bishop Phillips Consulting (http://www.bishopphillips.com/) for the education, use and enjoyment of our clients, educators, the public and professionals involved in management consulting and risk advisory, compliance, internal audit, insurance claims management, safety, governance and risk analysis industries. It provides reference articles on management, risk and risk related functions including: Risk Management, Internal Audit, Governance, Compliance, and Process Reengineering, etc.
The RiskWiki is based on the articles, methods, manuals and papers of primarily three firms: Bishop Phillips Consulting P/L, Stanton Consulting Partners and Bishop Finance P/L. These firms are contributing a large body of work amassed over many years experience with hundreds of clients. The project to convert and upload much of our BPC software help & manuals, extended body of consulting, risk and internal audit methods and models, and education and research materials is a large and time consuming project so the RiskWiki content changes frequently and will do so for the foreseeable future.
With the exception of all software documentation, and those additional documents marked otherwise, all written material on this site may be used freely by readers for any purpose including reproduction, subject only to the retention of moral rights by the authors. Some articles may include images for which additional permission may be required prior to reproduction. Software documentation may be duplicated in hard-copy for internal use by registered users of the systems with current maintenance agreements. Other uses of software systems documentation will be considered on written request.
Things to See in The RiskWiki
BPC RiskManager
- Are you looking for BPC RiskManager Documentation or to learn more about the software?
Bishop Phillips supplies the BPC RiskManagement suite of governance software that provides a complete governance solution across risk management, controls management, compliance management, insurance management, claims management, incident & hazard management, audit risk management, governance document management and survey generation and management. The system can be installed in configurations ranging from single-user to very large scale enterprise configurations.
The system is particularly suited to managing and reporting on the risk and compliance management tasks of government agencies, whole of government, special project, not-for-profits, insurance providers, service industries, utilities, and tertiary education sectors. You will find an extensive body of information covering technical, administration and user level tasks here.
If you have questions they may be answered in our frequently asked questions.
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The BPC RiskManager V6.2.5 (Enrima Edition) Enterprise and Single User software is available in a downloadable form from the Bishop Phillips Consulting web site. The software comes with a 60 day evaulation license (which means you can use it as if you own it for 60 days) prior to purchase. Online and phone support is provided to evaluation clients as if they were paying clients.
You must register a software enquiry with BPC using this form:
http://www.bishopphillips.com/australia/BPCServiceEnquiry.php
Note: The enquiry form can get a bit emotional when the moon is out, so if it tells you there are errors when there aren't any (ie you have completed the "required" fields), just put something in the general comments box and resubmit. That seems to make it happy! The form was written for php 5, but the server it is on currently hosts php4 (pending an upgrade), so although it was scaled back for the lower grade ..→Read More..
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About The Author & The Article
Jonathan Bishop, Group Chairman, Bishop Phillips Consulting. [1]
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Introduction
Embedding agents into Scrum teams means integrating autonomous AI systems as bounded‑role collaborators that support backlog refinement, planning, development, testing, documentation, risk management, and flow optimisation while humans retain all strategic and ethical accountabilities. It is a mixture of both Agentic AI (AI coordinating and running other agents) and embedded AI Agents (humans coordinating and running specific AI Agents).
The obvious first step is that, at least in IT projects, the software developer or systems implementer roles become coordinators of a team of AI code‑writers, but this is only one small slice of what embedding agents into Scrum teams really means.
What’s coming is far bigger:
Scrum teams will evolve into hybrid human–AI systems, where agents participate in every Scrum event, every artifact, and every workflow — not as tools, but as team members with bounded autonomy.
In this paper we explore this strategy and how to implement it.
The Core Idea
Embedding agents into Scrum teams means giving AI explicit roles, responsibilities, and boundaries inside the Scrum framework - without violating Scrum’s human‑centric accountabilities.
In this model:
- Humans still own the *accountabilities*.
- Agents take on *capabilities*.
This distinction is crucial. In the real world a human (manager) must own the risk and be accountable for the outcome of the team he or she manages. It is not acceptable for the manager to say "Ah, that mistake was one of the team members, so not my responsibility." He is responsible for the governance of the team and everything the team does because the manager:
- approve, re/defines and (possibly) selects the destination/ objective / strategy,
- selects the team & resources to deploy or how they are deployed,
- decides the training & skills the team requires to perform the work,
- inspires & motivates the team,
- prioritizes team activities,
- tunes & monitors performance (efficiency and effectiveness),
- owns the consequences of all these decisions made.
This is true whether the team is 100% human, a mixture of human and machine, or 100% AI. That is the manager's role.
What changes when we augment the human 'worker' team member with AI agents is that every human worker becomes a manager of a little automated workforce. Whereas before he or she just administered themselves and their own workload, now they are administering a team of separate AI minds to do that work at much higher speeds and depth than they could do before on their own.
The correct model going forward will be that every worker with agent augmentation will need the at least some of the skills of management that were previously reserved for those in human supervisory positions. Indeed, while it should be obvious that directing (prompting) the Agent is a required skill transported from the management layer to the worker, so also are the verification (testing) and monitoring skills - something that may need to be specifically trained and equipped into the humans agentic workflow.
With that shift in focus must come the recognition that, just as before, the human was responsible for his or her output, that does not change just because that output is now produced by a team of AI agents working for that human.
The Agent Skill Master
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BPC SurveyManager
- Are you looking for BPC SurveyManager Documentation or to learn more about the software?
Bundled with the BPC RiskManager suite and also supplied in both hosted and installed forms, the BPC SurveyManager software solution is an outstandingly versatile interactive web page generation engine using a survey model as the design and data storage paradigm. While being outstanding at survey creation and management the software is powerful enough to build build conventional data-input web pages. The full technical and SM language programming documentation is available from here.
Research into Virtual Worlds in Business & Education
- Are you looking for our virtual Learning research papers?
Through our Virtual Worlds research group - "Waisman Learning Systems", we do extensive work in the development of virtual learning and business spaces in SecondLife, and undertake considerable formal research into the application of Virtual Worlds to learning. You will find technical and text book material in our Virtual World Learning Systems pages. There is an extensive overview of the literature, and history of virtual worlds, a very large bibliography, details of our in-world networked lecture theatre control systems and lecture delivery systems, and a complete documentation of an extensive academic study undertaken by our WLS team into the effectiveness at achieving learning outcomes of different approaches in delivering course material in 3D virtual worlds.
You will find an extensive reading list and bibliography of works covering virtual worlds and virtual reality concepts, history, ideas, related technologies, and application in learning as well as relevant papers on learning taxonomies and teaching concepts relevant to virtual world learning systems here.
Internal Audit and Management Science
- Are you heading up an Internal Audit Team or learning internal audit methods?
If yes, you will find complete enterprise level internal audit methods and manuals on this site cross linked to our other management papers. The internal audit manuals cover everything from managing the audit team through planning the audit program to the detail of designing the audit, conducting interviews and undertaking the controls analysis; to reporting the results. Everything you are likely to need to manage and train an internal audit team is here.
- Are you a manager, management consultant or student of Management Science?
You will find articles covering topics of general management and process management methods in the RiskWiki including the detailed theory and practice of plannning, process re-engineering, control theory and our proven theories in stakeholder network organisation modelling. The work here is generally unique to this site. All methods have been used extensively and effectively in practice. Start here with process engineering.
- Are you managing a merger or an acquisition?
Take a look here first and learn about the risks in mergers and acquisitions and successful strategies for managing them from our team who have been through it successfully from both sides or the equation multiple times.
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