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##### Business Continuity Management
# T10: Test Planning Checklist
This is a list of the common tasks for the planning of a test. This checklist is often used in conjunction with the “*Template T1: Design Profile*” document.
[Suhana Sunreh](https://blog.bcm-institute.org/bcm/author/suhana-sunreh) Apr 1, 2021
###### Business Continuity Management Certified Planner-Specialist-Expert
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This is a series of useful templates that you can use to develop the Testing and Exercising program.
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#### Test Planning Checklist
#### Explanation
This is a list of the common tasks for the planning of a test. This checklist is often used in conjunction with the “Template T1: Design Profile” document.
**Type of Exercise**: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
**Date of Exercise**: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
| **Task** | **Schedule** | **Completed** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Obtain management support (Necessary throughout planning)** | | |
| **Decide what you need to evaluate/test (3- or 5-Year Plan)** | | |
| **Define the scope of the exercise** | | |
| **Establish objectives for the exercise** | | |
| **Identify limitations to exercise conduct** | | |
| **Revise objectives accordingly** | | |
| **Put together the Scenario Development Team** | | |
| **Develop the scenario sequence of events** | | |
| **Determine limits of participant response to each action ** | | |
| **Develop messages, mini scenarios, data** | | |
| **Coordinate efforts of internal and external response organizations** | | |
| **Secure logistics support (people, facilities, food, paperwork)** | | |
| **Develop mock-ups, props, diagrams** | | |
| **Complete the exercise manual** | | |
| **Verify security control** | | |
| **Select the exercise controllers/evaluators** | | |
| **Set up an exercise control cell** | | |
| **Develop and conduct controller/evaluator training** | | |
| **Brief participants on scope and limits of the exercise** | | |
| **Inform employees, the public, the media of the exercise ** | | |
| **Document and evaluate the exercise** | | |
| **Provide for exercise critiques and feedback** | | |
| **Generate the exercise report** | | |
| **Revise the plan and training based upon exercise lessons learned** | | |
Note that some steps may occur simultaneously and/or are on-going.
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##### Source
Goh, M. H. (2006). Testing and Exercising Your Business Continuity Plan. Business Continuity Management Series (2nd ed.). Singapore: GMH Pte Ltd.
Extracted from "**Chapter 32: T10: Test Planning Checklist**"
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