Service Delivery Management

6 important questions on Service Delivery Management

What is the service catalog?

Describes the IT services. The overall service strategy. Summary of available and planned services. Terms and conditions for service requests and service delivery. Strandard service level agreement

Per service
- name, version, description & variants
- service levels and intended users
- service unit & pricing, prerequisites, specific terms and conditions

What is a service request?

Can come in many forms
- has an ID
- name
- volume / service level
- requested delivery date
- remarks
- etc.

What does customer service request handling do?

Either via Service desk or IT service manager via a request handling process.

Determine urgency, resources needed, delivery time, financial consequences. Approval: by IT team and customer. Evaluate service: pay & everyone happy?
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What is services planning?

Predict expected IT service volumes. Based on forecasts of use.

Three levels
- The business processes
- The services consumption
- Resources

VOLUME FORECAST TECHNIQUES
User forecast
-often unreliable. Yet can capture large volume changes

Trend analysis
- cannot capture unexpected changes
- trends accurate in stable environment

What are the hardware and software scaling patterns?

Mainframe: Grosch (datacenters)
Small servers/PCs: Linear (laptops)
Commodity hardware: Grosch (harddisks) 

Site licensing: fixed
Server licensing: stepped
Volume licensing: Grosch

How is Moore's law evolving?

Originally 35%/yr yet past 1973 it was 60%/yr

However, recently: performance 14%/yr yet unit cost increases 38%/yr

Thus, slower rise in performance. End of increasing clock speeds. Transition to multicore. Scaling problems are now software

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