Conduct planning orientation meetings (introduce the planning team, review planning process, recovery approach and expected results, qualifications and roles of participants).

Review deliverables (business impact analysis, recovery assumptions, coping strategies, command and control strategies, data collection process, meetings and reports).

Review required resources (personnel, time, data, level of responsiveness).

Perform business impact analysis.

Document business functions at a task level and required resource dependencies by performing a business process study (see example in Appendix 1).

Review and establish recovery strategy.

Develop detailed command and control, response, recovery, and restoration procedures.

Establish testing strategy.

Establish maintenance strategy.

Develop training and orientation program.