Emergency Response Team

Definition

Emergency Response Team: a team that is primarily responsible for performing the disaster response task

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Emergency Response Team is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

The typical team-specific responsibilities of an emergency response team are to:

An emergency response team typically inherits the general team responsibilities from the team method component.

An emergency response team typically consists of persons playing the following roles:

Computer Operator, who assesses the impact of the disaster on the data and software components.
Disaster Recovery Coordinator, who manages the emergency response team and coordinates its tasks.
Hardware Engineer, who assesses the impact of the disaster on the hardware components.
Network Administrator, who assesses the impact of the disaster on the networks.
User Support Agent, who assesses the impact of the disaster on the user organization.

An emergency response team typically performs the following team-specific tasks an incremental, iterative, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

An emergency response team typically inherits the common team tasks from the team method component.

An emergency response team typically produces all or part of the following work products:

An emergency response team may not be part of the endeavor process if:
- An appropriate emergency response team already exists separate from the endeavor or center.
- There is no contact, data, or reuse center to suffer the impact of a disaster (e.g., an Internet Service Provider is hosting a website, the application is embedded).
There may be significant overlap in the membership of the emergency response team and disaster recovery team.