Disaster Recovery Drill & Remediation

What you get

the numbers that matter

Starting price

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billed monthly

Available at all Delivery Plan Tiers →

Ready in

≈ 2 weeks

signed to first PR

Retention

96%

engagements renewed

Match

96%

to your stack & domain

Run a realistic recovery exercise against a defined workload, measure the gaps against stated objectives, and fix the most important recovery failures.

How this operator works

every way of working, already decided

A · capability focus

Owns the system, not the ticket

Takes end-to-end ownership of a service or surface. Design, delivery, on-call. And is measured on outcomes, not hours.

B · ways of working

Embedded, async-first, instrumented

Works inside your repos, your CI and your rituals. Daily written standups, decisions logged. No status-meeting tax.

C · reliability posture

Runbooks, canaries, reversible deploys

Every change gated and reversible. Incidents get a timeline and a postmortem; nothing ships without a rollback.

D · comms & cadence

Plugged into your Slack & rituals

Joins standups and retros, reports weekly against the goal. You get an operator, not a queue.

E · tooling

Brings a pre-wired stack or adopts yours

Infrastructure and observability as code by default. No bespoke setup tax to absorb.

F · onboarding

Scoped, gated, reversible

Week-1 shadow, week-2 ownership, swap on request inside the trial window. No long-tail handover risk.

Overview

Most disaster recovery plans have never met a disaster, even a staged one. This package runs a realistic recovery drill against a defined workload, measures actual recovery time and data loss against stated objectives, and then fixes the most important failures found. The finish state is a recovery capability you have watched work, with the worst gaps closed and the honest numbers written down.

The drill is designed around plausible failure scenarios, executed in a controlled window against isolated targets, and timed properly. The remediation half of the sprint matters as much as the drill: broken runbooks corrected, missing automation added, and the highest-impact recovery failures fixed rather than filed.

What's included

Drill design and scenario selection

Realistic failure scenarios chosen for the workload, with a controlled execution plan.

Timed recovery exercise

The recovery executed and measured: real RTO and data-loss numbers, not estimates.

Gap report

Every failure and delay documented against objectives, ranked by impact.

Priority remediation

The most important recovery failures fixed within the sprint, and re-verified.

How it works

Scope: confirm the workload, objectives, scenarios, and the safe execution window.
Build: run the timed drill, capture the gap report, and implement priority fixes.
Handover: re-verify fixed paths, hand over updated runbooks and the measured results.

Part of every Delivery Plan

The Disaster Recovery Drill & Remediation is a menu item on the Scrums.com delivery catalog, available at every plan tier. Add it to your plan backlog and your delivery team schedules it like any other item — scoped, tracked, and reported through the SEOP. See Delivery Plan Tiers.

FAQs

Is it safe to run a drill against our systems?

The drill runs in a controlled window against isolated recovery targets, with production explicitly protected. The scenario design phase exists to make the exercise realistic without making it dangerous.

What do we need in place first?

Backups and recovery procedures worth testing. If those do not exist yet, the Cloud Backup & Disaster Recovery Setup menu item builds them; this package then proves them.

How often should we repeat this?

At least annually, and after major architecture changes. The handover includes a repeatable drill design, so later exercises can run with less setup.

What's included

in every engagement · no add-ons

✓Drill design and scenario selectionincl.

✓Timed recovery exerciseincl.

✓Gap reportincl.

✓Priority remediationincl.

Track record

deployments on real systems · anonymized

SectorSystemOutcomeSpanStatus

Fintechpayments-core ledger99.97% achieved14 mocomplete

Commercecheckout platform−38% incident rate9 mocomplete

Health SaaSdata plane0 SEV1 in 6 mo11 moactive

Logisticsrouting enginezero-downtime cutover7 mocomplete

AI infrainference clusterp99 −120 ms5 moactive

Works inside your stack

surfaces this operator binds to

SurfaceBindingDirectionAuth

Source controlgithub.com/<org>reviews + writesOIDC

CI / CDscm-flow · deploy-servicegates deploysOIDC

Observabilityotlp://collector:4317metrics + alertsmTLS

Commsslack://<workspace>standups, incidentsSSO

Secretsvault://scrums/op/<id>short-lived credsSPIFFE

On-callpagerduty://<org>primary / secondaryAPI token

Boundaries

what to deploy instead

Scoped to this discipline. For an adjacent capability, compose a second operator into the squad. compose →

Not a fractional advisory engagement. For advisory-only, contact platform@scrums.com.

Deployments

the only social proof we publish

402deploys

across 38 organizations

+24 last 30 days · median age 11.4 mo · retention 96%

Live telemetry

this operator's system surface

system map

signals · last 24h

deploys18

p99 latency112 ms

error rate0.02%

incidents0

Pricing

one number · one footnote

billed monthly

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All-in: the operator, delivery manager and replacement guarantee. No recruiter fee, no markup surprises.

Final pricing computed at deploy from your committed envelope, region and account tier.

FAQ

common questions

How is Disaster Recovery Drill & Remediation priced?+

Pricing is shown to signed-in accounts. Sign in to view the rate; pricing is computed from your engagement scope, region and account tier.

Is Disaster Recovery Drill & Remediation available now?+

Yes. It is published and deployable directly from the Scrums.com catalog.

Can a Disaster Recovery Drill & Remediation deployment be reversed?+

Yes. Deployments are reversible with a one-click swap inside the trial window.

Who provides Disaster Recovery Drill & Remediation?+

Scrums.com, vetted by the Scrums.com platform.

How it compares

vs other delivery

Option	From	Stack	Status
Disaster Recovery Drill & Remediation · this one	🔒 Sign in for pricing	delivery · outcome-driven-sprints · reliability	● available
Release Backlog Burn-Down Sprint	🔒 Sign in for pricing	delivery · outcome-driven-sprints · backlog	● available
Technical Debt Reduction Sprint	🔒 Sign in for pricing	delivery · outcome-driven-sprints · technical-debt	● available
Critical Application Rescue	🔒 Sign in for pricing	delivery · outcome-driven-sprints · rescue	● available

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