在我办公室的白板上，我写下了“求知若渴，处事若愚”这个翻译自（Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish）的名言。确实，收获一些知识，明白一些道理，与我而言比美味的食物或是其他任何物质的享受都要来得满足，我也很enjoy这样的过程。

周三是每个星期最忙碌的一天，常常都有超过十个以上的back to back meetings，不过今天我却有时间享受了一段可口的“早餐”，收获了一个新的知识点，来自于我美国的一位老板，他曾经在部队服役超过了15年。

没能在WiKi上找到这个解释的我得到了Dave的电子邮件。看起来好像Red Team是一种更为组织化的头脑风暴，为一些计划工作提供足够的Input。

All,

A “Red Team” Review is a technique that a number of us learned at the OMM a few years back.  It is a way to get a lot of feedback on a plan in a very short period of time.

It comes from a military background where the “friendly forces” are labelled in Blue (BLUFOR) and the “enemy” is labelled in Red (OPFOR – Opposing Forces).  The Planning team presents their plan to the Red Team in as much detail as practical.  The Red Team only listens during the presentation and notes their questions during the presentation.  Once the Planning Team is complete, each member of the Red Team gets to ask one of two questions:

1.  Could you clarify …..(some aspect of the plan)?2.  Have you considered…..(an issue, a risk, an area that the plan didn’t look at, etc.)
The Planning Team takes all of the “Have you considered’s” and notes them down for later discussion.  The Planning Team can answer the Red Team in one of four ways:

1.  With clarifying information about the topic asked.

2.  Yes (we considered …..)

3.  No (we did not consider….)

4.  Thank you (a polite way to say your question is off topic or something that I can’t talk about)

The Red Team continues to ask these questions until 1). you run out of time or 2). the Red Team runs out of questions.
The Planning Team then meets separately to determine if they need to add to or otherwise revise the plan based on the “Have you considered” type of questions.

David S. Wroth

InSight Program Director