Contingency Planning Toolkit

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


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Contingency 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 991 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Contingency Planning improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:

  1. Have you updated your risk frameworks to incorporate contingency plans for incorrect outcomes associated with a range of inputs, including the use of inaccurate historic data and lineage?

  2. Does the supplier have your organization continuity and contingency planning process in place to ensure continuity of supply in the event of natural disaster or supply interruption?

  3. Is there a process to manage the material ordering activity to ensure an adequate supply of raw material / lower level components are available to meet production requirements?

  4. What processes does management have in place to identify emerging risks affecting objectives and the related changes in risk prioritization in a rapidly changing environment?

  5. 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?

  6. What contingency plans and procedures does your tax administration maintain to reduce the impact of improper data disclosure or unrecoverable loss of data?

  7. Have businesses conducted the own continuity of operations planning including communicating with vendors, clients, and employees about contingency plans?

  8. Does training exist relating to contingency planning, management of emergency situations, risk communications, or recovery from emergencies?

  9. What actions will be taken to stabilize operations, as servicing customers and maintaining market share until operations return to normal?

  10. Why does senior management expect security practitioners to head your organizations crisis management and contingency planning operations?


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 Contingency Planning book in PDF containing 991 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

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

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

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Project Charter: Market – identify products market, including whether it is outside of the objective: what is the purpose of the program or Contingency Planning project?

  2. Probability and Impact Assessment: How carefully have the potential competitors been identified?

  3. Team Operating Agreement: Are there influences outside the team that may affect performance, and if so, have you identified and addressed them?

  4. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Does the stakeholder want to be involved or merely need to be informed about the Contingency Planning project and its process?

  5. Team Member Performance Assessment: What future plans (e.g., modifications) do you have for your program?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Have adequate resources been provided by management to ensure Contingency Planning project success?

  7. Quality Audit: Is the process of self review, learning and improvement endemic throughout your organization?

  8. Probability and Impact Matrix: What are the current or emerging trends of culture?

  9. Resource Breakdown Structure: How difficult will it be to do specific activities on this Contingency Planning project?

  10. Procurement Audit: If the expert was allowed to submit a tender, was all the relevant information the expert had gained from his earlier involvement made available to the other bidders?

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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:

  • 1.1 Contingency Planning project Charter
  • 1.2 Stakeholder Register
  • 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:

  • 2.1 Contingency 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 Contingency 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 Contingency 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 Contingency 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 Contingency 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 Contingency Planning project with this in-depth Contingency Planning Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Contingency 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 Contingency 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 Contingency Planning investments work better.

This Contingency 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.