Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Disaster Recovery Planning Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Disaster Recovery Planning related project.
Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.
The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Disaster Recovery Planning specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Disaster Recovery Planning Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.
Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…
- Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
Then find your goals...
STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track
Featuring 994 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Disaster Recovery Planning improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:
- Does your organization ensure that business impact assessment, business continuity and Disaster Recovery plans are produced for all mission critical information, applications, systems and networks?
- Will a designated team really be able to perform with the speed and efficiency foreseen within the plan when close colleagues have been fatally injured in your organizations disaster?
- Have you contacted your phone service provider and established a mobile phone number to be put on standby for potential redirection of your main number when and if needed?
- Do you have contact information for all staff members, vendors, suppliers, IT firm, insurance companies, and any other need to know contacts in the event of a disaster?
- Does the information provide details about critical assets, key facilities, Disaster Recovery plans, incident response plans, and security configuration information?
- Does your risk profile tolerate running applications on virtual servers, given that a problem with one physical server could affect multiple applications at once?
- When disaster strikes and your plan becomes operational, how well will your workforce cope with the chaos and confusion as you move from the event into recovery?
- Does your organizations Business Continuity Plan require each department or function to maintain written business continuity and/or Disaster Recovery plans?
- What changes if anything regarding business continuity / Disaster Recovery processes or plans if the system is unavailable or data has been lost/corrupted?
- What business continuity and data recovery plans are in place to ensure that service can be maintained in the case of a disaster or an emergency?
Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:
- The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Disaster Recovery Planning book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Disaster Recovery Planning self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:
- The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Disaster Recovery Planning Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Disaster Recovery Planning areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
- Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
- Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Disaster Recovery Planning Self-Assessment
- Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
- Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:
STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy
The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Disaster Recovery Planning projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Disaster Recovery Planning Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Disaster Recovery Planning project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- WBS Dictionary: Does the contractors system provide for accurate cost accumulation and assignment to control accounts in a manner consistent with the budgets using recognized acceptable costing techniques?
- Procurement Audit: Does your organization have an administrative timetable to assist the staff in implementing the budget calendar?
- Lessons Learned: Did the Disaster Recovery Planning project improve the team members reputations, skills, personal development?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: What conditions make using three-point estimating justifiable?
- Human Resource Management Plan: Are key risk mitigation strategies added to the Disaster Recovery Planning project schedule?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: Are vendor contract reports, reviews and visits conducted periodically?
- Project Portfolio management: Why would the work force want to know the force rank order of the portfolio?
- Cost Baseline: Have the resources used by the Disaster Recovery Planning project been reassigned to other units or Disaster Recovery Planning projects?
- Procurement Audit: How do you confirm whether the contracted organization supplied the goods or executed the work as per the quality, quantity and price indicated in the contract agreement/ supply order?
- Human Resource Management Plan: Have activity relationships and interdependencies within tasks been adequately identified?
Step-by-step and complete Disaster Recovery Planning Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Disaster Recovery Planning project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Disaster Recovery Planning project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Disaster Recovery Planning project Scope Statement
- 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
- 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
- 2.9 WBS Dictionary
- 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
- 2.11 Activity List
- 2.12 Activity Attributes
- 2.13 Milestone List
- 2.14 Network Diagram
- 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
- 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
- 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
- 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
- 2.19 Disaster Recovery Planning project Schedule
- 2.20 Cost Management Plan
- 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
- 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
- 2.23 Cost Baseline
- 2.24 Quality Management Plan
- 2.25 Quality Metrics
- 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
- 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
- 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
- 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
- 2.30 Communications Management Plan
- 2.31 Risk Management Plan
- 2.32 Risk Register
- 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
- 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
- 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
- 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
- 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
- 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
- 2.39 Change Management Plan
3.0 Executing Process Group:
- 3.1 Team Member Status Report
- 3.2 Change Request
- 3.3 Change Log
- 3.4 Decision Log
- 3.5 Quality Audit
- 3.6 Team Directory
- 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
- 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
- 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
- 3.10 Issue Log
4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:
- 4.1 Disaster Recovery Planning project Performance Report
- 4.2 Variance Analysis
- 4.3 Earned Value Status
- 4.4 Risk Audit
- 4.5 Contractor Status Report
- 4.6 Formal Acceptance
5.0 Closing Process Group:
- 5.1 Procurement Audit
- 5.2 Contract Close-Out
- 5.3 Disaster Recovery Planning project or Phase Close-Out
- 5.4 Lessons Learned
Results
With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Disaster Recovery Planning project with this in-depth Disaster Recovery Planning Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Disaster Recovery Planning projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
- Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
- Integrate recent advances in Disaster Recovery Planning and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.
Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'
This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Disaster Recovery Planning investments work better.
This Disaster Recovery Planning All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.
Includes lifetime updates
Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.
