[OR] [PM] [P2] [Appendix] [H] Scenario Testing Plan Template

Implement Phase Appendices

These appendices provide practical templates, checklists, registers, and implementation tools to support the five stages of the Implement Phase:

• Identify Critical Business Services
• Map Interconnections and Interdependencies
• Set Impact Tolerance
• Conduct Scenario Testing
• Improve Lessons Learned

The templates should be adapted to reflect the organisation’s size, complexity, regulatory environment, risk profile, governance structure, and operational resilience maturity.

Appendix H:  Scenario Testing Plan Template

Part 2: Objectives

The test objectives may include:

• validate service resilience;
• assess performance against impact tolerance;
• validate dependency mapping;
• test alternate arrangements;
• test supplier recovery;
• test decision-making and escalation;
• validate communications; and
• identify vulnerabilities.

Part 3: Scenario Description

Initial Event:

Part 4: Key Assumptions

• time of day;
• staffing levels;
• demand volume;
• affected locations;
• technology availability;
• supplier availability;
• external conditions.

Part 5: Success Criteria

"Implement" Phase of the OR Planning Methodology