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Providing project managers with the right skills and tools can help your firm more
effectively manage projects, meet client expectations, and achieve more
successful project outcomes.
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To – Optimistic Time
1 - Preparation
The preparation phase is about ensuring you have the appropriate
(response plans, policies, call trees and other documents in place and that
you have identified the members of your incident response team including
external entities.
2 - Identification
In the identification phase you need to work out whether you are dealing
with an event or an incident. This is where understanding your environment
is critical as it means looking for significant deviations from "normal" traffic
baselines or other methods.
3 - Containment
Deuble says that as you head into the containment stage you will want to
work with the business to limit the damage caused to systems and prevent
any further damage from occurring. This includes short and long term
containment activities.
4 - Eradication
During the fourth stage the emphasis is on ensuring you have a clean
system ready to restore. This may be a complete reimage of a system, or a
restore from a known good backup.
5 - Recovery
At this point, it’s time to determine when to bring the system back in to
production and how long we monitor the system for any signs of abnormal
activity.
6 - Lessons Learned
This final stage is often skipped as the business moves back into normal
operations but it’s critical to look back and heed the lessons learned.
What Is A Key Player
A key player is a stakeholder who has an important influence on the
outcome. They can be a performer, subject matter expert or manager at
any level - an integral part of the project team or a sponsor, functional
manager or client. According to the Business Dictionary, a key player is an
"Individual whose knowledge, creativity, inspiration, reputation, and/or skills
are critical to the viability or growth of an organization, and whose loss may
cripple it.