The purpose of this part of the questionnaire is to document what resources the essential work conducted by a particular function depends on. It is recommended to identify resource dependencies for at least each critical and essential business function.

The goal is to determine the very minimum of resources required to perform only the most critical or essential processes and tasks. During recovery, resources (i.e., phones, faxes, PCs, printers, etc.) should be shared among all of the critical and essential business functions to a greater degree than in normal business. When all the dependencies are known, tabulate them together according to the resource and the time period in which they are needed to result in the minimum resource requirements—the basis of strategy selection.

For each critical business function interviewed, ask the following question for each resource. Add the details based on the function’s specific requirements.