Backup and Recovery Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Backup and Recovery Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Backup and Recovery 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 Backup and Recovery specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Backup and Recovery 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 Backup and Recovery improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:


1. Are your current storage, management, backup and recovery capabilities keeping pace with your organizations growing supply of data, and are future capabilities appropriately planned?
   
   

2. Do you have a documented and tested off site backup, recovery and contingency plan in place to protect from hardware failure, data corruption or environmental disaster?
   
   

3. What tools are available to provide rapid, reliable backup and recovery in the event of a malicious attack or an error that results in unexpected downtime?
   
   

4. Are there procedures in place to ensure that all changes have adequate backup and recovery procedures defined with management approved escalation lists?
   
   

5. What is the burden on IT to manage your infrastructure, your backups, your disaster recovery, and your underlying cloud operational support systems?
   
   

6. How can it teams defend against malware and ransomware attacks and safeguard business continuity without enduring unexpected cost and complexity?
   
   

7. Will the software and service grow with your organization or will you need to start from scratch once your data reaches a certain size threshold?
   
   

8. What is the next move for improving the way you improve your cyber resilience to protect, restore, and refine your data recovery management?
   
   

9. Does the frequency of data backup procedures allow for the economic recovery of data lost due to intentional or accidental destruction?
   
   

10. What should companies consider when planning and setting up a backup process to protect themselves against ransomware and cyberattacks?
    
    


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 Backup and Recovery book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Backup and Recovery 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 Backup and Recovery Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Backup and Recovery 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 Backup and Recovery 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 Backup and Recovery projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Backup and Recovery Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Backup and Recovery project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Procurement Management Plan: Have Backup and Recovery project team accountabilities & responsibilities been clearly defined?
   
   

2. Activity List: How should ongoing costs be monitored to try to keep the Backup and Recovery project within budget?
   
   

3. Monitoring and Controlling Process Group: Mitigate. what will you do to minimize the impact should a risk event occur?
   
   

4. Project Management Plan: Are there non-structural buyout or relocation recommendations?
   
   

5. Team Operating Agreement: Must your members collaborate successfully to complete Backup and Recovery projects?
   
   

6. Scope Management Plan: Does the implementation plan have an appropriate division of responsibilities?
   
   

7. Resource Breakdown Structure: What is the purpose of assigning and documenting responsibility?
   
   

8. Activity Attributes: Does your organization of the data change its meaning?
   
   

9. Quality Management Plan: What are your organizations current levels and trends for the already stated measures related to financial and marketplace performance?
   
   

10. Activity Duration Estimates: Describe a Backup and Recovery project that suffered from scope creep. Could it have been avoided?


 
Step-by-step and complete Backup and Recovery Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Backup and Recovery project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Backup and Recovery project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Backup and Recovery 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 Backup and Recovery 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 Backup and Recovery 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 Backup and Recovery 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 Backup and Recovery project with this in-depth Backup and Recovery Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Backup and Recovery 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 Backup and Recovery 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 Backup and Recovery investments work better.

This Backup and Recovery 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.