From the course: Tech Ethics: Avoiding Unintended Consequences

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Customize your checklist

Customize your checklist

- Let's start embedding what you've learned into some best practices and key questions for your own team and product. I'll show you how to create your own checklist by working from the template. And I'll cover the basics of how to structure a list that applies specifically to your product and industry. I have provided a handy template you can use to get started. You start the checklist by stating your company's mission and values. Next, identify which of the eight risk zones from the Wheel of Misfortune that you may be vulnerable to and ask key questions for each. This is where the practice of envisioning risk pays off. Next, further customize your checklists by posing the following questions in a team meeting. One, which checklist questions are most relevant to the technology, product, or feature on which you are working? Two, what additional questions should you add to your checklist? Three, how will you…

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