Disaster Recovery Setup Resource Plan
This is a practical guide to building a resource plan for a disaster recovery setup project — the people and resources needed, when, and how they are allocated, adapted to the realities of establishing backup and disaster-recovery capability.
What a Resource Plan is
A resource plan is the people and resources needed, when, and how they are allocated. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Resource Planning. On a disaster recovery setup project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Disaster Recovery Setup project
Disaster Recovery Setup projects live or die on establishing backup and disaster-recovery capability. A well-built resource plan gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how disaster recovery setup projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Roles and skills needed
- Allocation over time
- Capacity vs demand
- Resource calendar
Disaster Recovery Setup-specific considerations
Tailor the resource plan to the risks that most often derail disaster recovery setup projects:
- Recovery-time objectives
- Untested failover
- Ongoing maintenance
Example
On a real disaster recovery setup project, the resource plan would be shaped by establishing backup and disaster-recovery capability. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — recovery-time objectives, untested failover, ongoing maintenance — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.