Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Project Management OPM3 Risk Assessment Training

Have you participated in a formal risk analysis for Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery in the past three years?

A formal risk analysis for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery risks have a direct impact on how well a company can survive an incident. Performed correctly, everyone in a management or senior staff capacity should participate in identifying and mitigating risks. This insures that the correct risks are identified for the correct reasons and can be part of an internal or external assessment effort.

Do you use a project charter to define exactly what is in and out of scope for your projects (especially Business Continuity Projects)?

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans are highly complex projects that impact every facet of a business. A project charter signed by a senior level executive (along with every manager involved) insures funding for the project, resources promised will be actually assigned, a level of cooperation from other managers because they signed the document, and what is expected from everyone. Without a signed project charter, you have little hope of getting other managers to part with the necessary staff to work on your project, may not have funding necessary, and no executive sponsor of the project.

Excerpts from "Twenty Elements of a Successful Business Continuity Plan"