Simple Guidelines for Successful Disaster Recovery Planning (Paperback) | Released: 27 Jan 2015

Fast Solution in 40 hours! Have you been asked to prepare a thorough disaster recovery plan in your free time? Do you really have any "free time?" I provide a project plan with activities complete the risk assessment, business impact analysis, and a thorough DR Plan. Complete this project in only 40 hours using a website provided free to book buyers. You will find a complete project plan with milestones, and related tasks, and templates for every task to streamline communications, information gathering, analysis, testing, and training Save time and produce a quality DR Plan fast without the expense of outside high-priced consultants and office politics. "Business Continuity Planning is about looking ahead and seeing what could potentially disrupt your operations and then finding ways to mitigate or avoid those events." Using the accompanying book resources website, you will have a checklist with a step-by-step list of activities that needs to be accomplished in proper order. To support those activities, I provide templates with interview questions to streamline the people part of the work, and then templates to help support the analysis/review part. Lastly, I provide templates, including a presentation where you update slides for an executive review. Once approved, you have a master enterprise template that you will finalize as the company main document to review twice a year in your tabletop exercise for training, and plan maintenance. This book will take you from "deer in the headlights" to a completed plan in only 40 hours. A practical approach for busy project managers to get the job done and minimize the cost and impact on everyone who has too much work on their plate already. In this book are presentations you can deliver to increase awareness. Secondly, there are best practices provided for 10 typical organizations such as Hospitals, Universities, Elementary Schools, Senior Centers, Apartments, Business Corporate Centers, Farms, First Responders and Government Agencies, and refineries. Finally, there are templates your team can quickly complete to establish a simple disaster recovery plan in 40 hours or less. A website is provided with links to over 100 additional resources to support teaching, and leading your organization easily and effectively toward completion of your business recovery plan. It includes over 20 videos, templates, and links to many other related files and lessons learned. Why should you need to learn about Disaster Recovery Planning? Every event requires a set of initial response activities. These activities are usually termed as "Incident Response" or "Emergency Response" activities. They more clearly define our instinctive reaction to how we provide for our safety and protection when an incident occurs. These activities may also include an attempt to communicate with others, family, friends, co-workers, or emergency officials. Once an initial response has been achieved following an event, a decision to implement either one or more of the organization's response plans is determined. One of the obligations all enterprise executives share is ensuring the survival of the enterprise in the event of disaster, either a natural disaster like Hurricane Sandy, or an unnatural disaster like an act of terrorism. Developing, documenting, and deploying an enterprise disaster recovery or business continuity plan can be a difficult, time-consuming exercise. Testing a business continuity plan can be an expensive proposition. As such, many enterprise planners are embracing "Tabletop" exercises as a more economical approach to plan validation. Tabletop tests are similar in concept to the training pilots receive in aircraft simulators, and are useful in enabling business continuity personnel to practice their skills in a safe environment.
About the Author: Harry Fisher is an Adjunct Professor at Wilmington University for the past five years. He is also a seasoned Information Security professional with over twenty years of experience working in various positions including software development, software quality. He was also a Disaster Recovery Coordinator for a major healthcare organization, and is a project management professional. His is currently an Area Testing Manager leading 25 software-testing teams worldwide for the Bank of America. Harry attained his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute. In addition, he is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and co-founder of the Agile Delaware professional organization with over 120 members statewide so far. He is a member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) where he attained the following 2 certifications: Certified Quality Manager (CQM), and a Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE). He earned his Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, and his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from Villanova, with an academic scholarship. He published several textbooks including software programming - Visual Basic .NET from Prentice Hall, and Jump-start Money Management to education teens and college students on the fundamentals of financial money management. In summer 2014, he will publish his next book entitled Successful Tabletop Drills Made Easy, What are the steps to create an emergency response plan, and how would you utilize this plan? Harry is currently teaching the Introduction to Information Security (SEC 6010), and IT Policy and Strategy (IST 7100) courses at Wilmington University to MBA graduate students. He previously taught for over 7 years at Penn State Great Valley, where he developed and delivered computer programming courses on Visual Basic, and Visual Basic .NET, and software quality. He received a teaching excellence award from PSU before relocating to Delaware for his consulting position. Harry is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Delaware First State chapter of the Association of Contingency Planners (ACP). He holds the position of Director of Public Relations to help promote and education our disaster recovery, and business continuity planning professionals in Delaware. CEO and Founder of Kids Near and Far, LLC providing education to children, and businesses worldwide.