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Business Continuity Management

Be prepared with strategic business impact analyses and business recovery plans.

Blueprint Overview

3 WEEKS
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Initiate & Plan

4 WEEKS
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Execute

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Deliver

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Go-Live & Beyond

Initiate & Plan

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Demo Business Continuity Management, collect requirements and deliver stories for acceptance

8 HRS Product Owner
10 HRS Scrum Master
26 HRS Development Team
6 HRS Customer Stakeholders
6 HRS Acceptance Testers
Weekly hours by role

Execute

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Configure Business Continuity Management as per best practice and customer requirements; continually show progress back to the customer and collect new requirements.

4 HRS Product Owner
8 HRS Scrum Master
50 HRS Development Team
3 HRS Customer Stakeholders
2 HRS Acceptance Testers
Weekly hours by role

Deliver

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Provide functional and technical knowledge transfer and support customer acceptance testers

12 HRS Product Owner
14 HRS Scrum Master
42 HRS Development Team
8 HRS Customer Stakeholders
16 HRS Acceptance Testers
Weekly hours by role

Go-Live & Beyond

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Promote code to production and provide support.

4 HRS Product Owner
8 HRS Scrum Master
25 HRS Development Team
3 HRS Customer Stakeholders
2 HRS Acceptance Testers
Weekly hours by role

Thirdera Staffing

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Engagement Manager

Responsible for providing leadership and direction to achieve growth and transformation.

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Business Process Analyst

Analyzes business requirements and provides system design while implementing system solutions.

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Technical Lead

Ensures the smooth functioning of technical operations, monitors and evaluates staff progress, and ensures overall client satisfaction.

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Project Scope

Thirdera's Business Continuity Management Blueprint includes a robust list of deliverables to set your Risk program on course for long-term success. Guided by proven best practices, our team of advisory and technical experts configures and implements a solution best fit for your unique needs while establishing a foundation of knowledge to promote ongoing maturation. Key deliverables include:

  • Configure Business Impact Analysis (BIA) questions, process, and cadence
  • Load/configure core elements for analysis, based on provided data or CMDB 
  • Configure notifications, reports, and dashboards from templates
  • Provide Functional Overview, Technical Knowledge Transfer, and UAT Support
  • Setup Business Continuity Plans (BCP), including fields, templates, and creation process
  • Load Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans into the system
  • Configure Crisis Management, including fields, templates, and process
  • Enable tabletop event simulation
  • Enable report and plan generation
  • Configure Event tasking, including fields, and escalation for incomplete tasks
  • Develop agent workspace to support plan owner tasks

Outcomes

Simplified Impact Analysis

Defined workflow and scoring mechanics for conducting Business Impact Analysis on various areas of the business
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Central Repository

Central repository of executable Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Plans
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BCM Simulations

Ability to exercise continuity plans through tabletop event simulation
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Defined Workflows

Defined crisis management workflows, including tasks driven from plans.
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Dedicated Workspace

Dedicated workspace to support continuity efforts.
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Data-Driven Analytics

Dedicated dashboards and reporting to increase visibility and simplify program management

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