Goodwin Gets IT
Practical resources for IT professionals, system administrators, IT managers, and anyone trying to make IT work a little better.
A practical checklist for evaluating IT contracts, SaaS subscriptions, software licenses, MSP agreements, support services, and recurring technology spend before renewal.
A reusable technical disaster recovery runbook template for turning a DR plan into an executable response procedure with activation criteria, triage, containment, recovery steps, restoration priorities, validation, communications, testing, and post-incident documentation.
A comprehensive, reusable disaster recovery planning template for defining recovery governance, responsibilities, backup strategy, RTO/RPO targets, critical systems, risks, testing, communications, and scenario-based recovery planning.
A client-ready Word template for turning IT assessment evidence into clear findings, risk-based recommendations, assigned ownership, and a practical 30/60/90-day improvement roadmap.
A practical field guide for conducting structured IT discovery, asking better assessment questions, requesting useful evidence, and validating how an environment actually operates.
A practical Excel assessment workbook with 66 prebuilt questions, evidence tracking, risk ratings, ownership, completion tracking, and an automated dashboard for evaluating an unfamiliar IT environment.
A structured scoring checklist for determining whether IT documentation is current, complete, secure, recoverable, and independently usable.
An Excel-based documentation management system for tracking ownership, freshness, validation, recovery criticality, review dates, and documentation coverage across IT systems.
A practical IT runbook template for documenting system architecture, dependencies, ownership, operations, troubleshooting, security, backup, recovery, and validation.
A reusable Excel framework for comparing IT infrastructure options using weighted criteria, business requirements, operational considerations, and documented recommendations.
Identify human single points of failure, assign system ownership, track cross-training, and make sure critical IT knowledge doesn’t live inside one person’s head.