The BEST way to build your Information Technology Disaster Recovery Plan

by Max2G

The goal of this presentation is to show you the BEST way to design, simulate and build an

IT Disaster Recovery Plan using a new, simple and efficient

modeling technique

Are you accountable for a

successful or unsuccessful IT Disaster Recovery operation ?

Do you know the risks you take

about not having an IT Disaster Recovery Plan ?

Does the whole organization feel really safe regarding

IT disaster recovery ?

Then building and testing an

IT Disaster Recovery Plan are a must !

Preparing

IT DRP is not an easy task !

You must know

What you want to achieve When to achieve it How to achieve it

Who will achieve it

For IT Disaster Recovery

This means that you have to know the dependancies between

Critical Business Services IT Critical Services IT Supporting services

4 steps to successModeling

the recovery activities and their

dependancies

Simulating and adjusting

the model

Building the plans and

adjusting the model

Testing and adjusting

the model

1 Modeling

1 Modeling

Modeling allows to get a representation of what

to do to achieve a result

For Business

Resumecritical

business services

For IT

Resumecritical

IT services

For Emergency

Ensurepublic safety and

health

1 Modeling

Concept 1

Object + StateGOAL

1 Modeling

Concept 1

Object + StateGOAL

The computermust be installed

Computer + Installed

1 Modeling

Concept 2

Object + StateTime to achieve state

RoleResources

Actor can play roles

1 Modeling

Concept 2

Object + StateTime to achieve state

RoleResources

IT Support will take 20 minutes

to install the computer

Computer + Installed20 minutesIT Support

1 Modeling

Concept 3

Object + StateTime Role

Link

Object + StateTime Role

This

That

Depends on

1 Modeling

Concept 3

Computer + Received2 hours

IT Provisioning

Link

Computer + Installed20 minutes IT Support

Connection showing dependency between

2 goals

This

That

Depends on

Computer can be installed only once

the computer is received

1 Modeling

Concept 4

Dependency diagram

Collection of goals and links

showing dependencies between goals

This is a model also called a Direct Acyclic Graph

By finding the dependancies, you determine everything that is

needed to resume IT operations.

Critical Business Services IT Critical Services IT Supporting services

The level of detail for this goal is sufficient.

However, if more detail is required, it can be exploded as needed. For example, Desk found and Desk

clean.

The level of detail in a model may vary according to the need.

1 Modeling

Concept 5

Sequence diagram

Collection of goals and links

showing sequence of execution

All arrows have been simply reversed !

This is the model designed for a very simple DRP use case. It shows the

sequence of goals (or activities) to execute, starting from the

bottom to the top.

This activity will be triggered once the DRP is triggered.

Because this activity do not depend upon other

activities, it will trigger first during simulation. Therefore, it is a

« triggering » activity.

This activity will be triggered once the DRP is triggered.

This activity will be triggered once the computer

is received and once the desk is available.

This button will trigger simulation.

This shows the activities executed by

IT Support.

This is the list of roles to which activities can be

assigned.

This is the list of actors assigned to the

IT Support role.

This is the list of actors that can be assigned to roles.

Another type of resources is the

documents which can be referred by activities without

being shown on the model.

This shows the activities where a

reference to the document « Office Plan » is set.

2 Simulating

2 Simulating

Simulation is the set of activities that allows to verify and adjust the model

2 Simulating

Is the Model complete Goals, objects and states Dependencies Roles

Is the Sequence correct Is the Time to achieve correct Is the Total time to achieve lower than expected Are the Responsabilities correct Is the Workload spread correctly over roles

Simulation is the set of activities that allows to verify and adjust the model

These are the starting and

ending times of the activities.

This is the duration of time

required to execute the activity or to reach the goal.

This is the RECOVERY TIME

OBJECTIVE of each activity.

This is the object

concerned by the activity.

This is the state reach when

the activity is completed.

This is the actor who

execute the activity.

This is the role who

execute the activity.

This shows the results from the simulation of the model !

This shows statistics per activity, per actor and per role.

3 Building

3 Building

Building is the set of activities that allows to build the plan from the simulation results

Customizable Per section Branding Free text sections Table of content

Global or specific to a role Output format

PDF, DOC, EPub, HTML

Click here to display the plan

4 Testing

There are many critical success factors to

IT Disaster Recovery but there is one

that is more important than others !

4 Testing

The best way to verify your readiness

is to test the plans !

4 Testing

4 Testing

This will provide strong confidence to

IT Support team Managers team Users

4 Testing

Test types includeSimple document revision Tabletop Simulation Exercice

Conclusion

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Complex project Management team Windows team Linux team

Network team Security team Mainframe team Databases team

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