Exercise Content
Roll Call: Do a roll call and ask everyone to state their name and role in the exercise (their role may be their official title, or the role given by the facilitator for the exercise). Each participant needs to state their own name (don’t have one person read off a list!) — this helps us with speaker recognition. Remember to announce yourself as the facilitator too! If you have observers in the exercise who will be silent or limited participants they should still be announced in the roll call. For role play exercises, participants should announce their real name, character name, and character role. For example “Hi, I’m Rob Henley, playing Freddie Fraudbuster, Head of Fraud Detection.” Objectives: Clearly state your exercise objectives. Injects: Separate your injects in the discussion. You can say things like “moving to the next inject” or “it’s now X time & date and we receive Y alert.” We organize our report data by inject and these cues are important for the system to properly detect your injects. Speak clearly: if people are talking over one another (it happens!), ask them to repeat any key information.Participant Setup
Ally is designed primarily for virtual tabletop exercises . The product works best when each participant is connected separately and has their own microphone. We also support in-person exercises (everyone around the table). For in-person exercises it’s critical to:- Have a quality recording device centrally positioned in the room
- Ensure side conversations are kept to a minimum
- Test in advance what audio volumes are detected from various distances from the recording device. Loud and clear audio is required!
- Follow the best practices above (and below!).