IT Managers Know That Preparing For A Crisis Is The Key To Career Survival
Unless you have one of those “lucky 8-balls” that we used to have when we were growing which you could shake and it would display a message in its window (“not very likely”), then you probably don’t have a good method for predicting the future. What you need is a plan for what your IT team needs to do when the unthinkable actually happens…
It’s Time For A Brainstorm
Let’s face it – you can’t possibly think of everything that might happen to your team. You can think of some things, but it’s going to take the input from the rest of your team in order to come up with a complete list of the possible crisis that you need to plan for.
The best way to go about doing this is to pull your team together into a brainstorming session. During this meeting allow everyone to come up with crisis scenarios and don’t initially reject any of them as being too far fetched. During this session you want to collect all possible ideas and you can sort them out later on. (more…)