Tools for Better
Management Decisions.

A growing library of practical resources — games, templates, tools, and profiles — designed to help you plan work, test decisions, manage risks, improve performance, and make better use of time and resources. Many are available free to use.

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Random Wheel WEB APP

A fast, ad-free way to pick a name, group, or number.

Type or paste a list — names, teams, or numbers — then spin for a random pick. Build a list from a pattern in seconds, drop each pick as you go, and go full-screen for class.

No ads Names or numbers Paste a full list Pattern builder Full-screen mode
Planline
Planline WEB APP

Scheduling that's genuinely a pleasure to use — critical path, resources, cost and risk in one intuitive tool, free.

Planline is scheduling designed around how people actually work: one clean window, nothing hidden behind ribbons, and everything you need to plan a project from first task to final handover. Build your work breakdown, link tasks by dragging, and watch the critical path, slack and cost update as you go. Load resources, level them, set a baseline and track progress…

Critical path & slack Resources & cost Built-in risk analysis No install, any device Open file format Free
Risk Arena
Risk Arena Web & Android App

Risk thinking under pressure, learned by playing rather than reading.

Manage uncertainty, trade-offs, and a limited budget — one round at a time. Risk Arena is designed to make the principles of risk management tangible and immediate. Quick to learn, meaningful choices every round, skill matters more than luck.

Quick to learn Meaningful choices every round Skill over luck Available on Google Play Web version available
RiskMeasure
RiskMeasure FREE TOOL

Monte Carlo risk analysis in plain Excel. No add-in, no install.

Enter your risks, press F9, and read your P80 and P90 contingency figures straight away. Handles up to 25 risks, five distributions, and correlated risks. Works on Windows, Mac and Excel on the web — nothing to install, no IT approval needed.

No install Monte Carlo risk analysis P80 / P90 Windows, Mac & web
Decision Tree Analysis
Decision Tree Analysis Tool

Model the choice, weigh the risk, see which option fits you.

Build a decision tree of any shape — as many options, outcomes and stages as the problem needs — and the analysis runs as you type. Expected value, worst case, best case and chance of a loss sit side by side, so no single number gets to decide on its own. Set how much losses actually hurt you and how…

Choice, chance and value nodes Unlimited branches and depth Weighs risk appetite, not just expected value PNG and PDF export
Bow-Tie Analysis
Bow-Tie Analysis Tool

Map the hazard and find the paths with nothing left holding them.

Map hazard, threats, barriers, top event and consequences — and see the state of your defences as you build. Every barrier carries a type and a condition, so a path with nothing effective left on it is visible at a glance rather than buried in a slide. The guidance prompts sit beside each element as you write it, and the…

Guidance beside every element Barrier type and condition Escalation factors Barrier register export
RiskMirror
RiskMirror Tool

Find out what your caution actually costs you.

Thirty-six quick choices, about four minutes. No forms, no calculations — you just pick the option you would really take, and each answer sets the next one. You find out how much you give up for certainty, how much better a win has to be before you will risk a loss, and whether you chase or cut when you are…

Results in four minutes How you handle wins vs losses What certainty costs you Big stakes and repeat decisions Download as PDF
Chain Reaction Schedule Game

Two harmless things that are a disaster together.

Four quick questions, and you'll predict the finish date wrong. Variability alone costs nothing. Dependency alone costs nothing. Put five crews in a chain and it costs eleven weeks — with nobody working slower. Then you get a budget that isn't big enough and have to fix it. Scored against 200 simulated futures, so it rewards the decision, not the…

Playable in 8 minutes You predict, then find out you're wrong A budget too small to fix everything Scored on decisions, not luck Two levels, compare your score
Joey WEB APP

Live class interaction on any phone — polls, word clouds, quizzes and more, with results on screen in real time.

Joey turns any lecture or workshop into a two-way conversation. Build your deck in the browser, present, and your audience joins in seconds by scanning a QR code — no app, no accounts, no sign-up. Ask multiple choice, word cloud, open-ended, ranking, scales, guess-the-number and 2×2 grid questions, and watch responses appear live on the projector. Choose your own colours…

Join by QR — no app needed 10 interactive question types Live results on screen Fully themeable Export results to CSV Free

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