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  • Barbara and Mark in attendance
  • Create a picture of what an ITSM Program would look like for our department
    • Statement of Direction
      • articulate a vision
      • identify benefits - why are we doing this
        • visibility into processes
        • resources become interchangeable to some extent
        • better analysis
        • some consistent process where we had none
      • identify pain points/biggest gaps
      • identify stakeholders
      • identify places where we have the potential for success
        • base on lessons learned from Remedy Change Management implementation
        • what parts make sense in our environment
        • exclude areas where processes and/or tools are already embedded
          • we don not want to replace existing processes or tools
        • include areas where we can collect, connect and automate ("glue together")
          • ITSS incident and response
          • request fulfillment
          • problem management
      • clearly define what is in and out of scope
        • limit to Operations & Infrastructure and Customer Support
        • articulate how far down the slope we go
      • articulate milestones and time line
        • digestible chunks of work - the sequence of events to do this right
        • what we get at each step along the way
  • Barbara and Mark cosponsor this larger effort once we have agreement on the vision and the work
  • projects come next
    • for example, Remedy CMDB build out with custom UI (service data but not asset data) based on prototype
  • deliverable draft statement for next sponsor meeting 8/22/12

August 22, 2012Review

  • review ITSM Statement of Direction with Barbara

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  • and Mark

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  • : ITSM Statement of Direction Final Draft.docx
  • next steps:
    • lightweight evaluation of ITSM tools 9/15 - 10/31
      • look at all modules and interfaces
      • use customer perspective
      • identify any show stoppers
      • commit to ONE TOOL by 10/31
    • rework ITSM Statement of Direction
      • narrow scope to 18 months
      • delineate more tangible deliverables (name services, the processes we would apply and the value proposition)

September 19, 2012