Disaster Recovery Setup Stakeholder Register
This is a practical guide to building a stakeholder register for a disaster recovery setup project — a record of stakeholders, their influence and how to engage them, adapted to the realities of establishing backup and disaster-recovery capability.
What a Stakeholder Register is
A stakeholder register is a record of stakeholders, their influence and how to engage them. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Stakeholder Register. 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 stakeholder register 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
- Stakeholder name and role
- Power and interest
- Attitude
- Engagement approach
Disaster Recovery Setup-specific considerations
Tailor the stakeholder register 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 stakeholder register 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.