Disaster Recovery is about getting your technology back to normal after a significant disruption. Do you need to factor it into your project planning? It's best to assume that things can go wrong, and link in with your organization's DRP. Thank you for watching - please do subscribe to the channel and, to join my community, sign-up at onlinepmcourses.com/assets440251/the-onlinepmcourses-newsletter/
Hi Mike. Can a DRP be used to manage a situation caused by a Pandemic? The reason I ask is because your video clearly states DRP takes cognisance of only IT infrastructure, data and communication. Please can you guide? thanks
@@PowerBook_life It's odd terminology, but it is standard. DRP refers specifically to IT and comms systems. The wider term is a Business Continuity Plan (BCP). This refers to an organization's ability to maintain operations following a disruptive event - like a pandemic. I can't tell you why the IT community has seized the DR term and made it their own - but they have. My video, What is a Business Continuity Plan: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G9JANBmTdqA.html
Hi - you should probably have a Pandemic Management Plan as a free-standing contingency - or it may be part of your wider Crisis Management plan. However, a Disaster Recovery Plan refers specifically to disruptions to critical technology. It doesn't matter what the source of the disruption, so in that sense, a pandemic is covered. That said, the recent pandemic will not itself have triggered tech failures in many cases. But... and here is a big BUT. A big disruption to critical tech during a pandemic with limited availability of skilled staff will exacerbate the problems and slow resolution. So, it may be wise for organizations to think in terms of multiple parallel crises, causing a cascade failure. In this case, does your DRP include access to fallbacks that are not constrained by the limited availability of skilled staff? Good question.
I don't, I am afraid. But Google is your friend - or any other search engine! Try the IT industry - in the UK, that's the BCS. Maybe ITIL includes this.
