Outline the main elements of business continuity planning along with the tools to define requirements and develop a business continuity strategy: Business Continuity and Project Management Assignment, ICT, Ireland

 learning outcomes

• Outline the main elements of business continuity planning along with the tools to define requirements and develop a business continuity strategy.
• Use a range of project management tools and techniques to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control and close a business continuity plan project or another project.
• Understand the schedule development process.
• Use schedule development tools and techniques to produce a GANTT chart for a business continuity plan project or another project.

Question 1 

Reflect on the project management processes from PMBOK (edition 6) and recommend the project management processes that need to take place at each stage of the project management life cycle in order to deliver a Business Continuity Programme in an organization that will be of two to three years in duration.

Question 2

Please identify a mission-critical activity in your organization or a fictional organization and use tables were relevant to answer the following questions:

a) Describe the activity outlining why it is mission-critical.
b) Carry out a qualitative business impact analysis for this activity.
c) Conduct a qualitative risk assessment for this activity.
d) Discuss the risk strategy that is being pursued/or should be pursued.
e) Discuss the business continuity strategy that is being pursued/or should be pursued.

Question 3 

Based on the business continuity strategy that is being pursued/or should be pursued in Question 2, produce a business continuity test schedule for the above mission-critical activity. The schedule should be in Gantt chart format and describe the (i) inputs, (ii) tools & techniques, and (iii) outputs used in the process.

You are required at a minimum to produce the following inputs, making assumptions where necessary:
a) WBS
b) Activity List
c) Activity Duration Estimates
d) Activity Resource Requirements