Key Success Factors in Facilitating Exercises
One of the most visible and essential elements of a business continuity program is exercising. Performing exercises enables the organization to validate and improve business continuity capabilities and plan documentation.
It is typically recommended that exercises occur at least once a year for every plan, process or procedure, although the actual schedule should consider organizational change and the criticality of the product or service recovered. As organizations are often resource-constrained (e.g. time, money and skills), a number of different types of exercises exist to meet stakeholder requirements while still addressing organizational constraints.
See Key Success Factors in Facilitating Exercises.
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An unexercised contingency plan could be worse than no plan at all!
Be sure to read Disaster Recovery Testing: Exercising Your Contingency Plan, Philip Jan Rothstein, FBCI, Editor for valuable tips, techniques and insights.
