Tabletop exercise

A scheduled, scored rehearsal of an incident playbook against a named failure mode, producing the same records a real incident would (record, clocks, draft reports, containment events) tagged as a drill. The playbook is the claim; the drill result is the evidence.

Developed in
ch. 17, Playbooks, RACI and drills
Chapters
ch. 17, Incidents
Source
Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source

Where it is used

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Sources

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Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Tabletop exercise. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/tabletop-exercise. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026tabletopexercise,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Tabletop exercise}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/tabletop-exercise}
}