Specialist Create, Deliver, Support Flashcards
Functional Organization
Hierarchical, formal lines of authority, determine power, roles, and responsibilities.
Often based on functional areas like HR, IT, Finance, etc…
Divisional Organization
Based on markets, products, geography, etc…
Each division may have profit and loss accounting, sales, marketing, engineering, etc…
Matrix Organization
Grid of relationships
Pools of people who move across teams
Often has dual reporting lines
Can provide more speed and agility
Flat Organization
Very little hierarchy
Removes decision making barriers, enabling fast decisions
Challenging to maintain as organization grows
Servant Leadership
Managers serve and support the people they lead by ensuring they have the right resources and support.
Often used with cross-functional/matrix organizational structures.
Implementing Shift Left
1) Identify shift-left opportunities and goals
2) Clarify the costs and benefits of the improvement
3) Set targets
4) Set up the improvement initiative
5) Progress incrementally with feedback
6) Review outcomes
Workforce and Talent Management Practice
The purpose of the workforce and talent management practice is to enable the organization, its leaders, and managers to focus on creating an effective and actionable people strategy (analyzing the current workforce, determining future workforce needs, identifying the gap between the present and the future, and implementing solutions) so that the organization can achieve its mission, goals, and strategic objectives.
Collaboration
Useful for creative and entrepreneurial work in a complex environment.
Collaborative teams work with others to achieve common goals.
Cooperation
Important for standardized work with a clear set of duties.
Cooperative teams work with others to achieve their own goals.
T-Shaped
An expert in one area who is also broadly knowledgeable in other generalized areas.
Pi-Shaped
A person who is an expert or near-expert in two areas and broadly knowledgeable in other generalized areas.
Comb-Shaped
A person who is strong in multiple areas and broadly knowledgeable in other generalized areas.
Integrated Service Management Toolsets
These tool sets act as an engagement and communications tool, are used to automate records and workflow management, and can raise, classify, prioritize, escalate, and resolve issues. These toolsets can also be used for change enablement, financial tracking, and asset tracking.
Integration and Data Sharing
Three Levels:
Application - Applications are made to interact with each other
Enterprise - Integrated applications are aligned to provide value
Business - Existing business services are aligned
Point to Point Integration and Data Sharing
Directly links pairs of systems
Quick and easy setup
Becomes unmanageable quickly with n(n-1) connections.
Publish Subscribe Integration and Data Sharing
Messages are published by systems to an event broker
Event broker forwards message to the systems designated as recipients
Reduces complexity, but reliability can be a challenge
Big Bang Delivery
Involves delivery of every integration at once
Beneficial for testing because entire system is available for test
Becomes complex quickly and hard to troubleshoot problems
Best used for small integrations with few systems
Incremental delivery
Agile approach with integrations occurring in a predefined order
Reduces scale of each delivery into production
Direct integration with the Value Stream
Allows individual integrations to be deployed as soon as they are ready.
Less structured than incremental delivery but allows for rapid progress
Testing is difficult and can only be done late in the service integration
Reporting and Advanced Analytics
Advanced analytics is the autonomous examination of data or content using high-level techniques and tools.
Goes beyond business intelligence with deep insights, predictions, and new recommendations.
Data Analytics
Method of examining data sets, often using specialized software in order to draw conclusions about the information they contain.
Made up of:
Data engineering - data processed by programming languages and made ready for analysis
Data Science - data is analyzed and insight is gained by using tools
Big Data
Term describing large volumes of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
Robotic Process Automation
Way for organizations to streamline business operations, lower staffing costs, and reduce errors.
Continuous Integration and Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD)
Continuous integration refers to the practice of pushing software changes into a shared deployment pipeline on a frequent and regular basis.
Continuous delivery describes the practice of making frequent typically small deployments into the production environment.
Continuous deployment is sometimes used to describe the automation of this process.
Information Models
Effective information models consist of these core elements:
Definition of key facts, terminology, activities, and practices
Structural representations of key components of technology and business services, and the relationships between them.
Value Stream
A series of steps an organization undertakes to create and deliver products and services to service consumers.
Stakeholder
A person or organization that has an interest or involvement in an organization, product, service, practice, or entity.
User
A person or role who uses services.
Customers
A person or role who defines the requirements for a service and takes responsibility for the outcomes of service consumption
Support Teams
A team with the responsibility to maintain normal operations, address users’ requests and resolve incidents and problems related to specific products, services, or other configuration items.
Suppliers
Stakeholders responsible for providing services that are used by the organization.
Partners
Organizations which work closely together to achieve common goals and objectives.
Relationship Managers
Roles responsible for maintaining good relationships with one or more customers
Service Level Manager
A person or role that is responsible for setting clear business-based targets for service performance, so that the delivery of a service can be properly assessed, monitored and managed against these targets
Senior Management
A person or role who is an executive or upper level manager within the organization
Job
A position within an organization that is assigned to a specific person.
Role
A set of responsibilities, activities, and authorizations granted to a person or team in a specific context.
Organization
A person or group of people that has its own functions with responsibilities, authorities, and relationships to achieve its objectives.
Competency Profile
Helps define and identify the best candidate to fill a role. Leader, Administrator, Coordinator/Communicator, Methods and Techniques Expert, Technical Expert.
Shift Left Definition
Moving work closer to its source by using in integrated approach to improving the flow, efficiency, and effectiveness of work.
Culture
A set of values that are shared by a group of people, including their ideas, beliefs, practices, and expectations with regard to how individuals within the group should behave.
Cultural Fit
The ability of an employee or a team to work comfortably in an environment that corresponds with their own beliefs, values, and needs.