1. Product Overview

Field Details
Product Name
Product Description
Product Owner / PM
Tech Lead
Last Updated

2. Business Criticality

Level Definition This Product
High Outage stops core business operations. Immediate financial, regulatory, or customer impact. [ ]
Medium Outage causes significant disruption but a manual workaround exists. [ ]
Low Limited impact. Most users can continue working without it. [ ]

**Overall business criticality of this product:**High / Medium / Low — add brief justification

**Recovery Time Objective (RTO) — maximum acceptable downtime:**e.g. 2 hours

**Recovery Point Objective (RPO) — maximum acceptable data loss:**e.g. last 1 hour of data


3. Architecture Overview

Describe or diagram the key components of your product: frontend, backend, database, integrations, infrastructure, and any third-party dependencies. Note the owner of each component where known.

Component Description Owner
Frontend
Backend / API
Database
Integration 1
Integration 2
Infrastructure

4. Disaster Scenarios

List every realistic failure scenario for your product. Think component by component: database, APIs, integrations, infrastructure, security, and human error. Focus recovery strategies on High priority scenarios.

# Scenario Description Priority Recovery Strategy
1 See Section 5.1
2 See Section 5.2
3 See Section 5.3
4
5

5. Recovery Strategies

For each High priority scenario, document the step-by-step recovery process. Copy the block below to add more scenarios.