Plan overview scorecards for plan usage details
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Summary of Plan overview scorecards for plan usage details
The Plan Overview tab provides comprehensive insights into a specific plan’s usage, including details on crisis events, exercises, and the plan’s effectiveness in asset recovery during loss scenarios. It helps you understand how frequently and successfully the plan has been applied in real and simulated situations.
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Plan Usage and Results
- Related Crisis Events: Displays total crisis events using the plan, ongoing events, and the date/time of the last completed crisis event.
- Related Exercises: Shows total exercises using the plan, ongoing exercises, last exercise date, and the success status of the last exercise.
- Exercise Results: A color-coded visual indicates the count of completed exercises categorized as successful, unsuccessful, or successful with issues, providing quick insight into plan performance during drills.
Plan Details
- Scope: Lists all assets identified in the plan and displays the minimum Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) values among primary elements, helping prioritize recovery efforts.
- Recovery Teams: Identifies recovery roles assigned to groups or users, showing assigned and unassigned roles to clarify responsibilities during crises.
- Documentation: Summarizes all documentation sections attached to the plan, indicating how many are complete or pending updates, ensuring plan documentation is current and reliable.
- Recovery Tasks: Highlights task assignments by group and owner, showing how many tasks are assigned or unassigned, critical for ensuring all recovery activities have accountable owners.
- Dependencies by Loss Scenario: Visualizes asset coverage by recovery strategies, indicating which assets have strategies and which do not, emphasizing the need for at least one strategy per asset to ensure comprehensive recovery.
Key Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
- Gain a clear, consolidated view of plan effectiveness through real crisis and exercise data.
- Identify gaps in recovery roles, documentation, and task assignments to improve readiness.
- Use visual indicators and scorecards to quickly assess asset coverage and dependencies, supporting better risk management.
- Ensure continuous improvement by tracking exercise outcomes and documentation status.
The Overview tab gives you the details of the plan and the exercise and actual events that use the plan. It also indicates how successful the plan was in recovering the assets in a loss scenario.
Plan usage and results
The Plan Usage and Results section shows the details of the crisis and exercise events that use the current plan that you are viewing.
- Related Crisis Events
- Total Crisis Events: The total number of crisis events that use the current plan.
- Ongoing Crisis Events: The number of crisis events that are currently in progress.
- Last Crisis Event Date: The actual end date and time of the last crisis event that happened.
Figure 1. Related crisis events - Related Exercises
- Total Exercises: The total number of exercises that use the current plan.
- Ongoing Exercises: The number of exercise events that are currently in progress.
- Last Exercise Date: The actual end date and time of the last completed exercise event.
- Last Exercise Result: Indicates whether the last completed exercise event was successful or not.
Figure 2. Related exercises - Exercise Results
- The color-coded donut indicates the number of completed exercise events that were
successful, unsuccessful, and successful with issues.
Figure 3. Exercise results
Plan details
- Scope
Displays all the assets identified in the plan as Total. Out of all the RPO and RTO that a primary element supports, the minimum value of RPO and RTO is displayed.
Figure 4. Plan assets scorecard - Recovery Teams
The scorecard helps you to identify teams and individuals with clear guidelines of responsibilities to act at the time of a crisis.
The assigned score indicates that a recovery role of a plan has been assigned to a group or a user. The unassigned score indicates that the recovery role is not assigned to any group or user.
Figure 5. Recovery teams scorecard - Documentation
Displays the total number of documentation sections that are attached to the plan. The breakdown shows the status of the documentation sections that are updated according to the plan and in Complete state. The Pending state indicates the documentation sections that are still under edit.
Figure 6. Documentation scorecard - Recovery Tasks
The recovery tasks scorecard indicates a group and an owner for the group, identified to carry out the activities of the plan during the recovery process.
Figure 7. Recovery Tasks scorecard Out of the total number of activities identified for the plan, the assigned score indicates the number of activities for which groups have been assigned. Unassigned score indicates plan activities for which groups have not been assigned.
- Dependencies by Loss scenario
- The donut chart shows the assets covered by a strategy, and uses colors to indicate whether
the asset has a strategy or not. A loss scenario plan must have at least one strategy for an
asset. However, you can also have a single strategy covering multiple assets.
Figure 8. Dependencies by loss scenarios