Testing Overview, Scope and Experiences

All Plans, Critical Systems, Recovery Strategies, Cyber and Call Trees / Mass Notification Call Lists must be tested and reviewed on a schedule that aligns to your policies and requirements. Testing must validate your plans and systems and improve the resilience of your organization. In sports, smart athletes ‘practice withRead More

Test to Become Really Resilience

The Testing Section of Ultimate Business Continuity drives home the importance of exercising all components of your resilience program. An untested plan is a plan that is doomed to fail. Test, Test, Test. Although I favor the term ‘exercise’ when communicating with employees to lower stress and increase learning, I am going to useRead More

How to Create Tiny Plans

I often asked myself, ‘Why do all business process plans have to be 8 1/2″ x 11″‘?’ I could not come up with a good answer so I began experimenting. In this post we look at another approach, ‘How tiny can be beautiful!’ There is definitely a place for large, detailed, wide-scope,Read More