Sample project Charter
Table of Contents
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Disaster Recovery Plan Introduction (Student #1) |
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Plan Purpose (Student #1) |
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Plan Objective (Student #1) |
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Plan Scope (Student #1) |
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Plan Scenarios Addressed (Student #1) |
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Plan Assumptions (Student #1) |
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Recovery Strategies and Activities (Students #2,3,4) |
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Risk Assessment (Student #2) |
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Business Impact Analysis (Student #3) |
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Risk Mitigation Strategy (Student #2) |
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Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Plan (Student #4) |
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Summary of Risk Mitigation Strategy (Student #2,3,4) |
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· Recovery Strategy Summary (Student #4) |
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· Recovery Tasks (Student #4) |
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· Summary Activation Criteria by Response (Student #4) |
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· Recovery Personnel (Student #4) |
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· Critical Vendors and their Maximum Tolerable Downtimes (MTD) (Student #3) |
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· Plan Timeline (Student #3) |
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· Critical Equipment / Resource Requirements (Student #2) |
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Training, Testing, Auditing (Student #5) |
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· Training (Student #5) |
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· Testing (Student #5) |
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· Auditing (Student #5) |
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Plan Updates/Maintenance (Student #1) |
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Appendices |
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A. Business Continuity Site Information (Student #1) |
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B. Site Contact Details (Student #2) |
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· How is Site Invoked (Student #2) |
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· Maps of Meeting Points (Student #2) |
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· Vendor Contact Information (Student #2) |
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· Forms (Student #2) |
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C. Communication Plans (Student #3) |
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· Communications by Audience (Student #3) |
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D. Employee Contact Information (Student #4) |
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· Employee Contact Information (Student #4) |
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· Crisis Management Team (Student #4) |
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· Emergency Response Team (Student #4) |
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E. Disaster Declaration Procedures (Student #5) |
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F. Checklists (Student #5) |
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References (Student #1) |
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Miami
IT problems(water in the computer room?) during the hurricane:
· Computerized system for automatically updating store inventory levels.
· Unable to make a transaction.
· Logistics and transportation.
IT recovery after the hurricane:
Introduction
This business continuity & disaster recovery plan will focus on Walmart Inc. especially in the Miami region caused by the hurricane. As a retail company, Walmart needs a strong warehousing system to support their normal operation while in the Miami area, a hurricane is a high-risk factor threatening Walmart on both the physical business system and the huge back-office system it owns. In this plan, ()
Plan Purpose
This plan aims to ensure that when a tornado hits the local area, WalMart can have timely countermeasures to deal with such measures as computer system failures caused by floods and subsequent operational problems. On this basis, the plan will give suggestions on how to avoid risks, minimize risks, and how to quickly solve them to restore normal operations after a disaster occurs.
Plan Objective
There are three major objectives within this plan:
1. Maintain normal operations of Wal-Mart during the hurricane disaster.
2. Reduce the severity of the disaster.
3. Speed up post-disaster recovery.
Plan Scope
The plan focuses on the IT system of Walmart Inc. in the Miami area.
Plan Scenarios Addressed
The specific prioritized scenario that this plan addresses are:
· Computerized system for automatically updating store inventory levels.
· Unable to make a transaction.
· Logistics and transportation.
Plan Assumptions
Totally, there are 20 Walmart stores currently operating in the Miami area. According to the information provided by Walmart official website, on average, there are about 350 employees working inside each Walmart supercenter. Therefore, the available labor force is about 7,000. ()