Monday, 14 January 2013

Questions to understand Incident Management Process


Many ITSM analysts trying to understand their customers IT Infrastructure for ITIL process methodology and analyzing their needs in order to bind them together with standard processes usually ask multiple questions to their clients or customers to grab that little extra information on processes, Here are some questions that I may ask for understanding their Incident management process .

·         What is the type of medium you use to log a ticket? Like email,chat,or phone
·         Do you have greeting defined for upon receiving call?
·         Do you have user/caller verification in process?
·         Do you have verification process for new or temp users/caller?
·         How do you find the details of the user on call logging tool? Is it auto populates upon entering certain values or manual update?
·         What are the categories available or should be used to categories the ticket?
·         What are the criteria’s you have in place to determine whether its service request or problem ticket or normal incident?
·         Do you update the existing tickets? If yes what is the policy to update or creation of new ticket even for the same issues?
·         What is the ticket numbering policy?
·         Do you have ticket dispatching policy or process for third party vendors?
·         Do you have ticket escalation policy? What are the criteria?
·         How do you convey the end user upon ticket closure?
·         What is the procedure to be used for unresolved tickets for more than week?
·         What is the procedure to be used if user calls for a status update on the ticket?
·         When the ticket needs to be referred to SME?
·         What is the call back process you have? What is the escalation procedure for L1 tickets?
·         What is the ticket handling procedure for major incidents?
·         What is the policy or procedure to get an update on third party vendor tickets and update?
·         What is the procedure for outbound calls?
·         What is the process to update the knowledge management database upon identifying new solutions?

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