[dssa] Ranking -- A work-assignment for all members -- due by the end of the day next Tuesday 15-Nov
<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">hi all,<div><br></div><div>as we move into the "analysis" phase of our work, it is important that we take a moment to decide *which* topics we would like to start with.</div><div><br></div><div>so we've developed these two worksheets for you to fill out -- one to rank the threats that we have identified, the other to rank the vulnerabilities.</div><div><br></div><div><b>the context</b></div><div><br></div><div>this should not be viewed as a final ranking, but rather more an informal poll to get an indication of where we agree and where we disagree. so these results, while public, are by no means final. partly this is because we are likely to disagree on some topics. but two other factors should be considered as well:</div><div><br></div><div>-- we haven't finished developing our lists of threats and vulnerabilities (indeed, two other groups are doing similar work and we will want to take a look at their results before making our lists final)</div><div><br></div><div>-- we need to consider the *context* of our ranking choices -- eg. we may find that we would rank items differently depending on whether it's happening right now, or a future threat</div><div><br></div><div>but this first ranking exercise will help us learn about all of that and more, so we're going to go ahead and give it a try.</div><div><br></div><div><b>the details</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>- this first-try version of the worksheet is best completed using Excel. Open Office is a fine substitute, you just won't be able to see your ranking. Google Docs makes a complete hash of it. we'll try to improve that in subsequent drafts, but there's a lot going on behind the scenes that doesn't translate all that well right now</div><div><br></div><div>- each spreadsheet has 3 tabs. the important one is the "middle" one (Step 1 -- Making the Choices). this is where you make choices between pairs of options. you'll quickly see that you are being forced to choose between all of our threats and vulnerabilities -- but only two at a time. which is more important to you, this one or that one? </div><div><br></div><div>- as you choose between possibilities, your choices are tallied on the third tab -- please add your name and organization to that page, it will make tallying easier.</div><div><br></div><div>- once you have completed your work, please send your spreadsheet back to the list -- <b>the deadline is 2400 your time on Tuesday 15-Nov</b></div><div><br></div><div>- i will combine all the spreadsheets and do arithmetic (mean, median, standard deviation, etc.) on the results in time for our call next Thursday</div><div><br></div><div><b>the future</b></div><div><br></div><div>we're pretty sure we'll do this several times. this first time we'll just be learning where we all agree and disagree. and how this process works. once we've had more discussion, we hope the process will get better and our results will start converging. but we'll see. look at it this way, it can't be any worse than the mess i made of our Dakar meeting. </div><div><br></div><div>thanks in advance -- this will take some time (i'd budget about half an hour), but they will be very helpful in guiding our work.</div><div><br></div><div>do it! do it now! :-)</div><div><br></div><div>mikey</div><div><br></div><div></div></body></html> Attachment:
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