Dictionary of Conducttr and Crisis Exercise Terms

Conducttr terms

• Deck: the set of buttons on the Pattern of Life control

• Editor: the exercise design application

• Exercise: The logic and content associated with a training session.

• Facilitator: A controller of the exercise, responsible for delivering injects, managing flow, supporting players, and observing decisions.

• Facilitator Dashboard: the web application used by the Facilitator to run the exercise

• Fidelity: The level of realism or detail in the simulation.

• Observer: A non-participating role, usually silent, who watches the exercise to assess performance or gather lessons learned.

• Method: Alternative name for Channel - the method/channel by which the inject is delivered

• Pattern of Life (PoL): In Conducttr a predefined pool of content used to simulate audiences predominantly

• Persona: Simulated individual or org with goals and attributes.

• Scenario: The story the forms the basis for the exercise.

• Stack/Stax: Stack of content used in Pattern of Life

• Virtual Desktop: the player interface

Industry terms

• Actor

• Audience

• EXCON: Exercise control - The team that manages and runs the live simulation.

• Inject: A single piece of simulation content or event.

• NPC: Non-player character - stakeholder played by the computer or simulation

• Player: A primary participant in the exercise. Makes decisions, receives injects, and experiences consequences based on their role.

• MEL (Master Events List): Central timeline that drives all injects.

• Red Team: Adversarial role or AI that introduces friction or disinformation.

• Training Audience (TA): same as Player

• TTX: desktop exercise

Worlds

• World: An administrative domain that includes an exercise library and one or more hubs.

• Exercise Library: A collection of slots where exercises (the training session content) have been uploaded from the Scenario Editor.

• Session: A record of an exercise run. Each time a Facilitator runs an exercise, a session is created.

• Hub: A simulation space representing a business entity where exercises are run. Facilitators log into a Hub to select and run an exercise.

• Facilitator: A user who can run exercises without needing prior experience with Conducttr or using the Scenario Editor.

• Administrator: A user who holds the master copy of an exercise and manages its availability, presentation, facilitator access, and updates.

• World Admin: A role that oversees the creation of hubs and management of facilitators, exercise publishing, notifications, and reporting from a central web application.