ITIL Foundation Training Flashcards

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SACM

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Service Asset & Configuration Management

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CMDB

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Configuration Management Database

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ITSCM

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IT Service Continuity Management

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BCM

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Business Continuity Management

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CAB

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Change Advisory Board - A group of people that support the assessment, prioritization, authorization and scheduling of changes. IT staff, MGMT and Suppliers

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VBF

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Vital Business Functions

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SLA

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Service Level Agreement

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SLR

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Service Level Requirements

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SLM

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Service Level Management

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CSI

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Continual Service Improvement

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3 Main Principles of Governance

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FAT
Fairness – Wherever the rules come from, they must be fair.
Accountability – Rules should be followed. Hold people accountable for their behavior.
Transparency – The rules cannot be a secret. Everyone must know these rules.

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Governance

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Overarching concept that Defines the directions, policies and rules for conducting business are common for both the business and IT

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OLA

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Operation Level Agreement

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KPI

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Key Performance Indicator

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CSF

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Critical Success Factors

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Process Control 3 Requirements

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Effective
Efficient
Repeatable

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Amount of CSI’s per process?

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2-5

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Amount of KPI’s per CSI?

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2-5

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DML

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Definitive Media Library - Store and protect all software media and prevent viruses or corruption.

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CMS

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The Configuration Management System - A group of databases such as: CMDBs + Incidents + Problem + KEDB + Chg + RFC + REL + TOOLS

It is part of the SKMS

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SKMS

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Service Knowledge Management System - AMIS + SMIS + SCMIS+ TOOLS

CMS is a part of this

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Purpose of Change Management

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To control the lifecycle of all changes, enabling beneficial changes to be made with minimum disruption to IT services

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Standard Change

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Pre-authorized, low risk, common and routine

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Emergency Change

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Immediate, asap

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Normal Change

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Any change that is non standard or emergency, but will have an approval process.

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Change Model

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pre-defined ways of handling a change of a particular type.

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Change Proposal

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A Change Proposal is often required for changes with a significant cost, risk or business impact and would typically be initiated via the Service Portfolio Management process.

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Remediation

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Actions taken to recover after a failed change or release

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ECAB

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Emergency Change Advisory Board - Subgroup of CAB to make Emergency Changes

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7 R’s of Change Management

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Raised
Reason
Return
Risks
Resources
Responsible
Relationship
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PIR

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Post Implementation Review (after a change of some sort)

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4 Authorization Phases of Release & Deployment

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Release Planning
Build & Test
Check into DML
Post Implementation Review - PIR

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DIKW

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Data Information Knowledge Wisdom

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Event

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Any change of state that has significance for the management of a configuration item (CI) or IT service

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Alert

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Notification that:
A threshold has been reached
Something has changed
A failure has occurred

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Incident

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An unplanned interruption to an IT service or reduction in the quality of an IT service

Failure of a Configuration Item that has not yet impacted service

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Types of Events

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Informational - Signify Regular Operation
Warnings - Signify unusual but not exceptional
Exceptions - Signify exceptional operation

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Service Management LifeCycle 5 Steps

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  • Service Strategy
  • Service Design
  • Service Transition
  • Service Operation
  • Continual Service Improvement
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4 things that make up Best Practice

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Sources
Enablers
Drivers
Scenarios

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Keys to ITIL’s Global Success?

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Vendor-Neutral
Non Prescriptive
Best practice

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Service

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A means of delivering value to customers by facilitating outcomes customers want to achieve without the ownership of specific costs and risks.
VOCR

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VOCR

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Value
Outcomes
Costs
Risks

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Core services

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Core Services anchor the value proposition for the customer and provide the basis for their
continued utilization and satisfaction

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Enabling services

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Enabling services are services that are needed in order for a core service to be delivered.

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Enhancing services

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Enhancing services are services that are added to a core service to make it more exciting or
enticing to the customer

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What is Value?

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  • Level to which a service meets the customer’s expectations

* From the customer’s perspective, value consists of achieving business objective

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The value of a service to customers is

based on two primary elements:

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Utility and Warranty

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Utility

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Fit Purpose - What the service does:

The functionality offer by a product or service to meet a particular need.

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Warranty

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Fit for use - How the service is delivered to the customer:

Assurance that a product or service will meet its agreed requirements.

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Customer Asset

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Any resource or capability used by a customer to achieve a business outcome.

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Service Asset

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Any resource or capability used by a service provider to deliver services to a customer

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Capabilities

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Represent an organization’s ability to control, coordinate, and deploy resources to produce value.

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Resources

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Resources are the direct inputs required for production, and are generally more easily acquired versus capabilities

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ITSM 3 Key points

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  • Is comprised of functions and processes for managing services over a lifecycle
  • Focuses on strategy, design, transition, operation, and continual improvement
  • Positions the organization as an agent of change to facilitate business transformation
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Stakeholders in Service Management

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Customers who buy goods or services and agree to service level targets.
Users who use the service on a day to day basis
Suppliers responsible for supplying goods that are required to deliver IT Services.

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Process Owner

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The person accountable for the process model’s success.

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Process Control

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The “brain” of the overall process ensuring there areoverarching objectives, supporting policies, an
identified Process Owner, reference documentation and the ability to ask for and record feedback

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The Process

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The process itself consists of a structured set of activities designed to accomplish the objectives
of the process, with clearly defined roles and metrics for measurements.

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Process Enablers

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Ensure the process is underpinned by the appropriate resources and capabilities in order for it to work effectively.

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Characteristics of a Process

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Measurability
Deliver specific results
Have Customers
Responds to a Specific Event

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Functions

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A team or group of people and the tools or other resources they use to carry out one or more processes or activities.

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Roles

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A set of responsibilities, activities and authorities granted to a person or team.
Defined in a process or function.
One person or team may have multiple roles.

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Group

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A number of people who are similar in some way.

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Team

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A team is a more formal type of group. People who work together to achieve a common objective, but may not be in the same organizational structure.

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Department

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Formal organizational structures which exist to perform a specific set of definite activities on an ongoing basis.

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Roles

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Roles, defined in a processor function, are used to assign activities and to grant responsibilities and
authorities to a person or team.

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Service Owner

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The Service Owner is accountable for the delivery of a specific IT service and is a primary stakeholder in
all of the underlying IT processes which enable or support the service.

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Process Owner

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The Process Owner is accountable for ensuring a process is fit for purpose. This should be a senior
position in an organization so that the process can be championed effectively.

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Process Manager

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The Process Manager is accountable for operational management of a process. It is possible that multiple managers exists for a process, for example in the case of regional change managers.

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Process Practitioner

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The Process Practitioner is responsible for carrying out one or more process activities. An example of a Process Practitioner would be a Change Analyst or a member of a technical team filling out a Request for Change.

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RACI Model

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Responsible
Accountable
Consulted
Informed

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Service Strategy

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Provides guidance for developing abilities that enable the organization to function in a more strategic manner

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Service Design

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Guidance focuses on creating service integrity through the design and development of services and serviced management practices in a holistic, consistent, and effective
manner

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Service Transition

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Aids in developing and improving capabilities for effectively and efficiently transitioning new or changed services into operation, while controlling risks associated
with a failure or disruption

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Service Operation

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Guidance for the day-to-day processes required for the delivery and management of services

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Continual Service Improvement

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Guidance aimed at the evaluation and improvement of the quality of services, processes and the Service Lifecycle

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Three Types of Metrics

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Technology Metrics
Service Metrics
Process Metrics

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Two Kinds Of KPI

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Qualitative & Quantitative

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Four Categories of KPI

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Compliance
Quality
Performance
Value

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The Deming Cycle

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Is intended to achieve a goal of steady, ongoing improvement.

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4 Key Stages of the Deming Cycle

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PLAN
DO
CHECK
ACT

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Service Strategy Purpose

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To define the perspective, position, plans and patterns that a service provider needs to be able to execute to meet an organization’s business outcomes.

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Governance

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Defines the directions, policies and rules for conducting business are common for both the business and IT.

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Automation

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Optimization and continual improvement.

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Internal Service Provider

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An internal service provider that is embedded within a business unit.

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Shared Services Unit

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An internal service provider that provides shared IT Services to more than one business unit

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External service provider

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A service provider that provides IT Services to external customers

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3 Types of Service providers

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Internal Service Provider
Shared Services Unit
External Service Provider

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The Service Portfolio

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The Service Portfolio is a set of services managed by a service provider and represents the
provider’s commitments and investments across all customers and market spaces

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3 Areas of Service Portfolio

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  1. Service Pipeline - services under development
  2. Service Catalog - Services currently live in production.
  3. Retired services - Phased out, retired, but available in special cases.
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PBA

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Patterns of Business Activity

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3 Steps to Risk Management

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Identify Risks
Analyze Risks
Manage Risks

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What is a RISK?

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Risk: A possible event that could cause harm or loss, or affect the ability to achieve objectives.

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What is a Business Case?

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Demonstrates the net benefit of the project to the organization.

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Service Portfolio Management

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The Process responsible for defining which services will be entered into the Service Portfolio and how those services are tracked and progressed through their lifecycle.

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The Four Ps

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People
Process
Products/Technology
Partners/Suppliers

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SDP

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Service Design Package - The Service Design Package represents documents which define all aspects of an IT service and its requirements through each stage of its lifecycle

98
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STAMP

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• Service solutions, including all of the functional requirements, resources and capabilities needed
and agreed
• Service Management systems and tools, especially the Service Portfolio for the management and
control of services through their lifecycle
• Technology and management architectures and tools required to provide the services
• Measurement systems, methods and metrics for the services, the architectures and their
constituent components and the processes
• Processes needed to design, transition, operate and improve the services

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Design Coordination Scope

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Ensuring that all requirements are appropriately addressed in service designs, particularly utility
and warranty requirements

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Service Level Management Purpose

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Ensure that all current and planned IT services are delivered to agreed achievable targets

101
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SIP

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Service Improvement Plan

102
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SLAM Chart

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SLA Monitoring, at a glance overview of achievements and how they measure up against targets.

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Incident Management Scope

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Any event which disrupts, or could disrupt, a service

104
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Functional Escalation

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SLA based escalation that goes from one Level to another.

105
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Hierarchic Escalation

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Escalation that goes to higher levels of management.

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Major Incidents

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Have the greatest impact and urgency

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Incident Model

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Predefined steps for handling incidents

108
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4 Additional Incident Activities that are owned by the Service Desk

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Ownership
Monitoring
Tracking
Communication

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Request Fulfillment Purpose

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Manage the lifecycle of all service requests

110
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Problem Management

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Focuses on diagnosing the root cause of Incidents and determining their resolution.

111
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Service Desk Objectives

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Single Point of Contact & Restore normal service operation as quickly as possible.

112
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Operations Control

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IT operations control oversees the execution and monitoring of the operational activities and events in the IT infrastructure. Involved in Event Management.

113
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Facilities Management

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Manages the physical IT Environment.

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PIP

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Process Improvement Plan