Manual workarounds have capacity limits
"We will do it on paper" works for an hour and not for a week.
Manual fallbacks are a legitimate and underrated part of continuity planning, and they have a throughput. A process that handles two hundred transactions a day electronically will not handle them by hand, and the backlog accumulates while the system is down. Knowing the actual capacity turns a comforting sentence into a plan.
More on Resilience
- High availability and disaster recovery solve different problemsA part, or the place
- A dependency can be more critical than the applicationThe lighter side goes down
- Recovery priorities should follow business outcomesWhose order is it?
- Resilience includes people and suppliersThe shelf runs out
- Failover can fail if never exercisedThe day it is asked
- Graceful degradation preserves the important partDrop the ballast