BCK304 - Business Continuity Plan Development

The objective of this course is to provide an in-depth understanding of business continuity plan development.  This course gives a detailed insight into plan components and teaches how to develop a business continuity plan (BCP).

Students will learn:

  • Objectives of business continuity plan
  • Scope of BCP
  • Role of Business Impact Analysis in BCP development
  • Role of Risk Management in BCP development
  • Essential components of BCP and their purpose
  • Disaster notification procedures
  • Disaster escalation procedures
  • Disaster declaration procedures
  • Disaster recovery procedures required within BCP
  • Examples of disaster recovery procedures
  • How to decompose BCP into six distinct execution phases
  • Definition of each execution phase
  • Input to each execution phase
  • Tasks and activities required for each execution phase
  • Output from each execution phase
  • How to organize effective BC teams
  • Roles and responsibilities of BC teams and their members
  • Recovery resources and services involved in BCP
  • Crisis communication guidelines
  • Relationship between emergency response plan and BCP
  • External coordination with BCP
  • BCP appendices
  • BCP change management process

By completing this course, students will gain the knowledge to develop an effective BCP.

Recommended Pre-requisites:

BCK 101, 102, 301, 302, and 303