02 — Capability · BC-830.20
Continuity Planning
Write down, in advance, how each critical process keeps going when its normal site, system, staff or supplier is gone, and keep those plans current as the business changes.
- Business Continuity Plans
- Workaround Planning
- Recovery Strategy
In scope
- Recovery strategies and alternate arrangements
- Continuity plan authoring and maintenance
- Supplier and third-party continuity
- Plan ownership and review cycle
Out of scope
- IT disaster recovery runbooks (see BC-730)
- Supplier contract terms (see BC-640)
Decomposes into · 4
- BC-830.20.10Recovery Strategy SelectionChoose, for each critical process, how it will recover — alternate site, manual workaround, mutual aid or accepted outage — and what that choice costs.
- BC-830.20.20Continuity Plan DevelopmentProduce plans that someone unfamiliar with the process could follow at three in the morning, with contacts, steps and decision points.
- BC-830.20.30Supplier ContinuityKnow which suppliers are single points of failure, what their own continuity looks like and what the organization does if they stop delivering.
- BC-830.20.40Plan Maintenance & ReviewReview every plan on a schedule and after any material change, so the plan describes the business that exists today.