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Tailoring guidelines for a service industry

Submitted by Visitor on Tue, 2011-01-18 04:45

Dear Mr Wizard

Can you share your thoughts and approach on how you define the tailoring guidelines for a service industry?

Regards
Nura

ITIL reporting structure

Submitted by Visitor on Sun, 2011-01-16 20:08

Dear Mr Wizard

I would like to know the reporting person for a role "Change Manager" and working under whom within IT division.

JJ

When will the ITIL Manager Bridge exam be withdrawn?

Submitted by Visitor on Thu, 2010-11-25 18:52

Dear Wizard

I know ITIL V2 is being killed off and I hear some of the exams won't be available much longer. When is the end-date for the manager bridge exam?

Thanks, Al

How can I validate a claimed ITIL certification?

Submitted by TheITILWizard on Tue, 2010-10-19 19:22

Dear Wizard?

I have a CV on my desk from a foreign chappie who claims certifications all the way up to ITIL Expert, from [a training organisation]. I've never heard of them and they are based in [a country ten thousand miles from here]. He also seems to be under the impression that a Service Desk is a piece of furniture. How do I validate his claims?

Many thanks for your help
PJ

The difference between an underpinning contract and a SLA

Submitted by Visitor on Thu, 2010-08-26 07:04

Hi Mr Wizard,

I have a confusion between a SLA & an Under Pinning Contract, In a production enviroment suppose if a Telecom Circuit goes down, If we engage the service provider for Incident management/RCA, we speak about the SLA there. But we actually agree an Under pinning Contract with the Service Provider during provision of the telecom circuit. How are under pinning contract & SLA related and what is the difference ? Can you please Clear my doubt.

Regards,

Lamar

Incident vs Service Request

Submitted by Visitor on Tue, 2010-08-03 08:07

I need your assistance please. I am having a debate right now with some folks here about creating an incident ticket(ICM) when a Service Request(SVR) has not been successfully completed. Why should we open an incident …this is not what ITIL says.
Why are we reworking SVR’s as ICM’s? This is incorrect from an ITIL perspective. The purpose of Incident Management is to restore service during an outage or service-affecting-issue as quick as possible.
Would this be classed as a change-related incident i.e. a SVR was not done correctly which results in an incident being created. Now the resolution of that rework is being driven through an incident.

You response will be greatly appreciated.

Rgds

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