BUSINESS CONTINUITY: THE PROJECT APPROACH FOR SAFER RECOVERY

A one-day workshop for all those involved in Business Continuity Planning., showing how to set up the BC project and keep it on track

OBJECTIVES

The workshop will demonstrate proven methods of BC project initiation and management and provide examples of project plans.

Why you shold attend

All good business continuity plans have Recovery Teams, Action Plans, Calling Trees, Inventories of Vital Materials and of Equipment, Requirements Lists...... It all seems good on paper. And it may even seem good at a test, because the duration of a test is necessarily limited. But often the actual recovery process can seem confused - and sometimes it is not clear whether recovery is going to plan or whether the only progress is towards the abyss! We make it all clear.

Who should attend

Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Contingency Planning and Risk Managers and teams

How you will benefit

This workshop shows how to:

  • identify the critical path for recovery
  • retain logical progress when all around is chaos
  • identify recovery milestones and deliverables
  • spot out-of-line situations - quickly!
  • report progress quickly, simply and effectively
  • create "drill down" recovery and action plans

Programme

  • Introduction and Seminar Objective

    Principles of Recovery Project Planning
    Defining Requirements
    Defining Service Levels in a Recovery Situation
    Recovery Specifications
    Project Checklists
    Estimating Recovery Resource
    Critical Path Analysis in Recovery Planning

  • Principles of Recovery

    Defining Recovery Tasks
    The Recovery Project Plan
    Task and Resource Scheduling
    Project documentation
    Defining Milestones and Deliverables
    Project Reporting

  • Project Practical

    Delegates put into practice the skills they have acquired and developed during the morning. Syndicates will be provided with realistic details of an organisation for which they will develop a recovery project plan.

  • Project Plan Presentation

    Syndicates present their Project Plans for discussion.

  • The Recovery Project Teams

    Team Building:
    What makes a Good - and Bad - Team
    Creating a Great Team
    Identifying and Handling Trauma
    Coping with the Aftermath
    Normalisation

  • Delegate Forum and Surgery.


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Workshop Leader

Andrew Hiles

Books by Kingswell Consultants

Books on Service Management

Hiles, A. N. The Complete Guide to IT Service Level Agreements, Matching Service Quality to Business Needs.. ISBN 0-9641648-2-5 published by Rothstein Associates Inc.  The standard work on IT Service Level Agreements.

Hiles, A. N. E-Business Service Level Agreements: Strategies for ISPs, ASPs, *SPs and CLECS.  Published by Rothstein Associates Inc.  The first book to deal specifically with e-commerce Service Level Agreements.

Hiles, A. N. Service Level Agreements, Winning a Competitive Edge for Supply and Support Services.  ISBN 0-9641648-4-1published by Rothstein Associates Inc. This book applies Service Level Agreements to services other than IT. Real case studies and example SLAs are provided ranging from Human Resources, Logistics, through Training, Livestock Handling, Logistics and Field Service Engineering.

Hiles A.N. and Gunn, Dr. Y. Creating a Customer-Focused Help Desk: How to Win and Keep Your Customers. Published by Rothstein Associates Inc. ISBN 0-9641648-6-8 This book has the support of the Help Desk Institute www.helpdeskinst.com

Books on Business Continuity

Hiles A.N. Business Continuity Management: Best Practice. Published by Rothstein Associates Inc. ISBN 0-9641648-3-3.  This book explicitly covers all the ten areas of business continuity competence required for membership of the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII) and the Business Continuity Institute (BCI).

Hiles A.N. Enterprise Risk Assessment & Business Impact Analysis – Best Practices ISBN 1-931332-12-6 Published by Rothstein Associates Inc. Covers many techniques and methods of risk and impact assessment with detailed examples and checklists.

e-Publication. Kingswell books on Business Continuity, Service Level Agreements and  Help Desk Management will shortly be available by page download in conjunction with Rothstein Associates Inc and Books24x7.com.

New and updated books. Existing  books Business Continuity Management – Best Practice and IT Service Level Agreements have been extensively updated. See our products page or visit www.rothstein.com .

All the above books can be obtained from:

Rothstein Associates Inc.
4 Arapaho Road
Brookfield
Connecticut
0608-3104 USA

www.rothstein.com

e-mail pjr@rothstein.com

Telephone: USA: 1-888-ROTHSTEIN
Worldwide: +1 203 740 7400

Hiles A.N. Guide to Risk Management. Published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Hiles A.N. and Barnes, P. (Editor and main contributor) The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management, John Wiley & Sons, 1999, ISBN 0 471 98622 4.

Hiles, A.N. (contributor), Croner’s Purchasing and Supply Guide to I.T., 1994, ISBN 1 85524 271 0

Hiles, A.N. (contributor), Guide to Business Continuity Management, 1999, for the Confederation of British Industry by Caspian Publishing

Hiles A.N. (contributor) Business Continuity Management, 2000, Institute of Directors / Department of Trade & Industry.

 

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