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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.
We will be acquiring an Enterprise license. We are looking to have RM implemented across a group of companies. They will all be using the same instance with same fields and definitions as the subject matter is the same, but they will each be on different servers, with different IT teams managing them. Can we use a single server license or will we require multiple server licenses?
Answer
Yes, and no. Firstly, the Enterprise license is not the best license for this, but rather a Group license (assuming all the companies are related entities) and you expect them all to adopt the BPC RiskManager system. Enterprise License counting is on production servers and legal entities (so you can have as many test and training servers as you like). Each system can have as many databases as you like (we don't license by the database).
The principal difference between the Group and Enterprise licensing is that the total license fee is capped, on the condition that the ..→Read More..
Scrum in the context of the Project Management Eco-system
Scrum is a lightweight product development framework in the Agile philosophical epoch that aims to create 'adaptive solutions to complex problems'. It asserts that knowledge and hence value comes from shared experience (which requires transparency) and making decisions on what is observed while minimising waste and focussing on essentials. Minimising waste flows, in part, from discovering missteps as early as possible in the process (transparency again). Complexity is broken down into incremental steps (realised in 'sprints') that are time constrained (to force them to be small and keep investment low before course change is required). Ideally task steps should represent an evaluable endpoint - like a screen mock-up (perhaps without functionality) so ideas and endpoints can be incrementally refined. It adopts a project organisation structure that aims to realise these concepts within the structure itself as well as the product design.
There was a phrase there that is deliberately selected and easy to miss: Scrum is a 'product development framework'. It is NOT a project management method. It is a component of a project management method, but it omits a group of essential components required for a full project management solution in the 'real world'. It addresses a portion of project organisation that is often glossed over in project management approaches and it fundamentally re-orients the thinking of managing deliverables but it does not address all of what is required. Scrum deliberately avoids:
budgets
schedules
resource allocation
risk registers
governance structures
critical path analysis
These belong to:
BPCPM
PRINCE2
SAFe
organisational governance
portfolio management
In fact Scrum implicitly assumes the project goal is defined, and the project is already staffed and resourced. Scrum's focus is on how teams deliver value, not how the organisation funds them.
The idea that Scrum means "we don't plan - we just iterate" is a dangerous anti-pattern. This is how projects blow up. Scrum reduces risk through empiricism, but it does not replace:
risk identification
mitigation planning
dependency management
financial oversight
We still need these.
How Do We Approach these Omissions?
Handling Risk
BPC's success in project management over three decades was predicated on the incorporation of active management of risk in projects. We cannot countenance a model that does not incorporate active risk management, so in this discussion we address that ommission directly.
In the guide below we have sewn into the Scrum components the responsibilities that are needed in a real-world project that are omitted from the Scrum guide and the published Scrum training materials. We have attempted to do this while preserving the focus and objectives of Scrum, so these adjustments are not a complete solution but reflective of what has to be done at the identified role levels to integrate the Scrum framework into a larger project management method.
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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