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was little structure to the project, no clearly defined goals or deliverables, and certainly
no sense of order.
After two years and only a list of horrific disaster scenarios to show for it, the project
finally faded into memory as fewer and fewer departments sent representatives to meetings.
The DBA team was finally able to return to its initial project, which was newly
entitled ???Database Documentation.???
The ???We Were Supposed to Do That???? Project
A much smaller manufacturing company took a top-down approach to disaster recovery.
At a company meeting, the owner of the company asked the staff to put together a plan of
action to return the business to a functioning status in the event of a disaster. The technical
staff did a fine job assessing risks and documenting workarounds and recovery steps
for a variety of disaster scenarios. The documentation was assembled, and the task was
considered complete.
Months later, workers at the trucking company that delivered raw materials to the
plant walked off the job. The owner of the manufacturing company had orders to fill
without the ability to manufacture the products.
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