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Contingency planning and project initiation

Contingency planning and project initiation

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Contingency planning and project initiation

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- [Instructor] So let's look at the actual contingency planning process. And specifically, we want to talk about addressing writing the contingency plan. And as we write the contingency plan, or the business continuity, or the continuity plan, whichever verbiage you're going to use, we want to talk about the phases that we go through and the development of this plan. So we're going to first look to NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology. And the document that we refer to as NIST 800-34. And NIST 800-34 spells out six distinct steps for developing and maintaining a business continuity plan. So the very first step is going to be to develop the contingency policy, develop the planning policy, the business continuity policy. However, again, some, you'll hear slightly different words. They refer to it as the contingency policy with NIST 800-34. So what's the purpose of this policy? Well, anytime we initiate a project, anytime we begin, we need buy-in from senior management in…

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