Description
Document critical functions, dependencies, recovery priorities, contacts, alternatives, exercises and lessons learned.
Built for small businesses preparing for operational interruptions. Most small businesses find out what they depend on during the interruption. Write down the functions that must keep running with your own recovery objectives, map every system, supplier, person and place each one needs, and count cover only when it is real: a ready workaround, a qualified alternative supplier or a backup you have actually restored.
This is a complete system to business continuity plan and keep the work under control: a
37-page guide that walks through the method, and a
13-sheet tracker that does the counting for you.
Who this is for
Small businesses preparing for operational interruptions.
The guide
A guide to the method: who it is for and who it is not, setup, every sheet and column defined, a complete worked example built on the demo data that ships in the file, the weekly routine, decision rules, common mistakes and troubleshooting.
The tracker
Sheets for Business Profile, Critical Functions, Dependency Map, Contacts, Recovery Priorities, Alternative Workflows, Supplier Alternatives, Backup Verification, Incident Log, Exercise Plan and Checklists, with a Start Here page and a Dashboard that blocks invalid inputs, names the single function with the most urgent preparation step, and counts open incidents past their recovery objective, single points of failure, unverified backups, missing workarounds, stale contacts and overdue exercises, beside a recovery order built from your own objectives. 3874 formulas calculate as you fill it in, so
you are reading results rather than building a spreadsheet.
What you get
- 37-page PDF guide (11,596 words)
- 13-sheet Excel tracker with 3874 formulas,
Excel-format .xlsx, recalculated and mutation-tested in LibreOffice Calc. Microsoft Excel desktop and Google Sheets import were not verified; all formulas are visible and unlocked, with no macros or external connections - Read-me-first guide so you know where to start
- Instant download, 205 KB, yours to keep
What this is not
Internal continuity planning only, not legal, insurance, regulatory, IT-security, safety or financial advice, and not a certified continuity standard. In any emergency involving people’s safety, contact the emergency services first. Recovery objectives and criticality are your own judgements; the workbook never decides what is critical, predicts no losses and guarantees no recovery. Calendar hours and days in one time zone. No monitoring, alerting, automatic backups or messaging. Record where credentials are kept, never the credentials. Fixed input ranges do not auto-expand. Demonstration data is fictional.
