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

2 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Tabletop exercise: mentions per chapter2 mentions of the term across 2 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Cross-referenced chapterOther chapter12 Governance Program: 1 mention12 Governance Program117 Incidents: 1 mention17 Incidents1No mentions in the other 21 chaptersSource: the Body of Knowledgev0.5.0
Tabletop exercise: mentions per chapter2 mentions of the term across 2 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Cross-referenced chapterOther chapter000102030405060708101112 Governance Program: 1 mention1121314151617 Incidents: 1 mention117181920212223Source: the Body of Knowledge v0.5.0
Mentions per chapter How often each chapter names the term, with the chapters the glossary cross-references drawn solid. The longest bar is where to read the term in use; bars spread across many chapters mark a term that runs through the discipline.
Mentions as a table
Mentions of Tabletop exercise per chapter
ChapterMentionsCross-referenced
00 Preface0No
01 Definition0No
02 Why Now0No
03 Values & Principles0No
04 The Stack0No
05 Patterns0No
06 The Role0No
07 Maturity Model0No
08 Regulatory Map0No
10 Reading List0No
11 AI Defined0No
12 Governance Program1No
13 Risk Management0No
14 Development0No
15 Deployment0No
16 Fairness & XAI0No
17 Incidents1Yes
18 EU AI Act0No
19 Privacy & AI0No
20 Existing Law0No
21 AI Laws Worldwide0No
22 Principles & Standards0No
23 AI Agents0No

Sources

No external source: the term is coined or used in a specific sense by this Body of Knowledge, and the section linked under "Developed in" is its source.

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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}
}