Process owners meeting 042213

Communications

Actions

Who

Notes

The following fields are being removed from ServiceNow: - IT Business Service, IT Provider Service, IT Component categories (x3) and Affected component. Process owners need to communicate to their clients that the affected components is being replaced.

Process Owners


All existing reports will change and users will need to be communicated to. Provide a list of clients who get reporting.

CMDB team


The CMDB team to develop a communication for the process owners to use to communicate to their clients.

CMDB team


Knowledgebase articles will have to be re-classified. (How many?)

CMDB team


Requirements

Actions

Who

Notes

How do we convert tickets that are already open when we convert the data?

CMDB team


How do we change from Production to Non production environments?

CMDB team


What are the current key reporting metrics – how do we measure that the process is more effective? What key reports are currently used for reporting statistics?

CMDB team


Can the ‘other’ field be restricted? (TN comment - Not sure what this meant)



Requested that the client sees some meaningful field (suggested Business services) in read only format next to CI change.



Need to document the process flow of ticket status. Use case for status changes



Currently, when a ticket is ‘on hold’ an email gets sent to the client. It was agreed that if we change the CI then the client does not get notified.



Training

Actions

Who

Notes

Educate users about what CI means and what they should be choosing.

CMDB team


Affected component open tickets

CMDB team


We should consider doing a pilot training for the process owners and their clients who will be impacted the most

CMDB team


Open items

Actions

Who

Notes

Add report users as an audience to the stake holder analysis. (TN comment - Not sure what this meant)

CMDB team


Demonstrate the business service map in 2 to 3 weeks to process owners

CMDB team


In the self-service module what will the customer see?  Can this be a short description of the CI that is meaningful to the client (i.e. Business Service?)

CMDB team


Have Service Owners been made aware of the impacts?

CMDB team


Agenda Items for next meeting

Discuss the effects on assignment group – Does the assignment group change each time we have a CI?