Reducing risk in projects, increasing resilience to unexpected change - Dave Snowden | Craft 2025

This presentation will introduce the latest version of ‘Estuarine Mapping’, a technique that maps what can be changed and at what cost. It then focuses on changing the environment (or substrate) so it is more favourably disposed to a good outcome. It will include new work on risk portfolio management, identifying lead indicators on potential project failure and creating better systems to handle unknowable, and sometimes unimaginable, unknowns. This will update and extend the work in the EU Field Guide on managing in the complexity (and chaos) of which the speaker was the principal author. This talk was recorded at Craft Conference 2025. The event was organized by CraftHub. You can watch the rest of the conference talks on our channel. If you are interested in more speakers, tickets and details of the conference, check out our website: https://craft-conf.com/ If you are interested in more events from our company: https://crafthub.events/