This document discusses business continuity and disaster recovery planning. It outlines the history and types of planning, including crisis management, emergency response, disaster recovery, and business continuity. The key steps in planning are risk analysis, business impact analysis to determine recovery time objectives, identifying required resources, strategic planning to identify solutions, implementing solutions, writing the plan, testing the plan, and maintaining the plan. Business impact analysis establishes financial forecasts and recovery time objectives. Strategic planning identifies commercial and internal options, and a cost-benefit analysis is used to select strategies. Testing and maintenance are important to prove a plan's capability and keep it up to date.