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2020-01-16 - Insert Title Here

Independent Study op available. Also hear about this in Audit. They’re really trying to get this off the ground, and it seems kinda cool.

Overview

• Disaster Recovery
  • Recovering from a significant disaster
  • Restore critical business processes
  • Do it fast, inside 30 days
• Business Continuity
  • Identifying and Mitigating critical machines that may fail
  • “Our big printer is our only one, we should have another.”
  • Restore businesses back to pre-disaster state. Return to normal operations.
  • Takes a long time.

Q: Are we a whole company or a department?
A: You will choose one of many technical departments

Common Mistakes

• No BIA
• Too tech focused
• Doesn’t involve the business
  • Similar to BIA
• Ops personnel responsible
  • Who is supposed to do things?
• Docs too complex
  • Needs to be clear and understood.
• No plans for maintenance
• No Training
• Template restrictions
• Not understanding needs
• Compliancy
  • Due diligence
  • “Never happen to me”
• Not getting started

Basic concepts

• Readiness assessment
  • Is the company large enough to need this?
• flow
• identify critical paths
• unite tech w/ business
• minimize decision making
  • decisions made ahead of time
• training!
• Change Management
  • Changes to the document must alert stakeholders
  • “Businesses live and die by change management”
• Management commitment
  • Plan needs support and authority

Avoid single points of failure.

Read this: Bus Factor

• Assignments will set technical expectations
• Teams will set team expectations

Team selection

• Business World
  • Teams selected by expertise and roles
  • Tasks generated by team
• In Class
  • Teams are assigned
  • Tasks are assigned weekly
  • Teams will work together every Thursday

Class Activity: Team Contract

Number on nametag is Group

Successful Teams

• All contribute
• Communicate directly
• Communicate outside class
• Explore topics on their own

Talking to team about communication

• Read teamroles.pdf
• Each member make a list of their favorites

Team Contract

• Expectations
  • Team Meetings
  • Class Attendance
• 5 to 7 ground rules
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Communication Plan
• Conflict Resolution
• Process for Making Revisions
• Signatures