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- English
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About this book
An Unexercised Continuity Plan Could Be More Dangerous Than No Plan At All!
Is exercising your continuity program too time-consuming, costly, or difficult to justify in the face of conflicting organizational priorities or senior management buy-in? What if you could use quick, cost-effective, easy exercises to get valuable results with only a relatively modest commitment?
Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or just getting started, Charlie Maclean-Bristol provides you with expert guidance, a practical framework, and lots of proven examples, tools, tips, techniques and scenarios to get your business continuity exercise program moving!
You can carry out any of the 18 simple yet effective exercises detailed in this book in less than an hour, regardless of your level of experience. Plus, you will find all the support you will need to produce successful exercises.
Build your teams' knowledge, experience, confidence and abilities while validating your business continuity program, plans and procedures with these proven resources!
Business Continuity Exercises: Quick Exercises to Validate Your Plan Will Help You To:
- Understand the process of planning and conducting business exercises efficiently while achieving maximum results.
- Develop the most appropriate strategy framework for conducting and assessing your exercise.
- Overcome obstacles to your business continuity exercise program, whether due to budget restrictions, time constraints, or conflicting priorities.
- Choose the most appropriate and effective exercise scenario, purpose and objectives.
- Plan and conduct your exercise using a straightforward, proven methodology with extensive tools and resources.
- Conduct exercises suitable for responding to all types of business interruptions and emergencies, including cyber incidents and civil disasters.
- Conduct exercises for newcomers to business continuity as well as for experienced practitioners.
- Create a comprehensive post-exercise report to achieve valuable insights, keep management and participants in the loop, and to further your objectives.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- COPYRIGHT
- WHAT YOUR COLLEAGUES ARE SAYING ABOUT BUSINESS CONTINUITY EXERCISES
- Dedication and Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Foreword by Dr. Claire MacRae
- Foreword by James McAlister
- Introduction
- How to Plan Your Exercise
- Types of Short Exercises
- 1. The Simplest of Exercises: The Plan Walkthrough
- 2. The Most Versatile of Exercises: Speed Exercising
- 3. Simple Tabletop Exercise
- 4. Fire Bell Has Gone Off â âOutside NOWâ
- 5. A Team Agenda for Dynamic Incident Team Meetings
- 6. Concise Briefings With NoWaffle, Three-Minute Briefs
- 7. Identify Key Stakeholders by Using a Communications Matrix
- 8. Stakeholder Influence Matrix - Understanding Your Stakeholdersâ Importance
- 9. Precise Incident Reporting Using the METHANE Mnemonic
- 10. Responding to an Incident by Conducting a Dynamic Risk Assessment
- 11. âWhat, So What, Now Whatâ -Ensuring You Understand the Whole Picture
- 12. Horizon Scanning During Incidents, Anticipating Worst Case
- 13. War Gaming: Red Team Versus Blue Team
- 14. Randomize Your Exercise Scenarios With a Scenario Generator
- 15. Accessorize Your Response With Battleboxes and Grab Bags
- 16. Keep it Simple: the Hot Debrief
- 17. Debrief Military Style: With an âAfter Action Reviewâ
- 18. Debrief Your Exercise, Incident or Event Using âStructured Debriefingâ
- 19. Writing a Post-Exercise and Training Report
- 20. The Role of the Umpire in Exercises
- 21. A Framework for Assessing the Exercise
- 22. Choosing an Exercise Scenario
- 23. A Selection of Scenario Suggestions
- 24. A Syllabus for a Full Dayâs Training
- 25. Summary and Next Steps
- Appendix A: Developing a SIMEX
- Appendix B: Exercising With Tribbles, by Philip Jan Rothstein, FBCI
- Credits
- About the Author