disaster-recovery-exercise-design

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps teams design disaster recovery (DR) exercises that actually validate whether their recovery plan works under realistic failure conditions, including measurable RTO and RPO outcomes.

Core Features & Use Cases

• DR exercise planning (tabletop to live): Choose the right drill format (tabletop, partial live, or full live) based on risk, maturity, and blast radius.
• Failure-mode and blast-radius selection: Select which high-value failure modes to rehearse and frame expected worst-case impact with clear abort criteria and customer notification plans.
• Success criteria and evidence discipline: Define measurable RTO/RPO targets, validate runbook reality, verify paging/on-call response, and enforce action-item follow-through with owners and deadlines.

Quick Start

Ask for a DR drill plan that targets a specific failure mode (for example, primary database loss) with defined RTO/RPO success criteria, tabletop-to-live escalation, participant roles, data collection steps, and an action-item tracking approach.