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BPMN & service management

14 February 2016 by Robert Falkowitz 9 Comments

BPMN: a step toward automation I have argued elsewhere that the typical service management tools in use today might be suitable for service desk agents, but are annoying, redundant and of little value to anyone else involved in resolving incidents, among other activities. I have further proposed that existing IT management should be leveraged to […]

Filed Under: Incident Management, processes Tagged With: automation, BPMN, BPMN notation, conditional event, error event, Incident Management, kanban, lean process, OMG, process, process automation, process document, service management tools

Types of Tool Automation

13 October 2013 by Robert Falkowitz Leave a Comment

Types of tool automation The fundamental difference between a software tool and most types of tools is that software can be programmed to automate one or more tasks. Most other tools do not automate work at all, only extending the capabilities of the wielder of the tool. Certain mechanical tools can automate a task, but, […]

Filed Under: Automation, Availability management, Change management, Incident Management, Risk management, Service level management, Service Management Tools, Tools Tagged With: automation, change management, Incident Management, incident management tools, Service Management, service management tools

What is a problem?

17 March 2013 by Robert Falkowitz Leave a Comment

Although troubleshooting and the definitive elimination of faults has a long history, the particular innovation of ITIL® 2 was to recommend treating problems and incidents as two separate entities, each with its own life-cycle. This advice had led to a series of confusions and ambiguities, many of which have still not been resolved among the […]

Filed Under: Problem Management Tagged With: automation, cause, decadent society, decadent technology, known error, maintenance, proactive problem management, problem, reactive problem management, risk, root cause, symptom

The Automation of Risk Assessment

10 January 2013 by Robert Falkowitz 2 Comments

Risk Assessment Tool Architecture

Pre-industrial risk assessment Risk assessment remains a highly manual activity in all organizations I have ever seen. Some organizations have a structured approach to assessing, and then managing, risk. Others work largely with a seat of the pants approach. But in both cases, the activity of identifying risks and their magnitude and the creation and […]

Filed Under: Risk management Tagged With: automation, big data, risk, risk assessment, risk management, risk management tools

The scope of change control

18 November 2012 by Robert Falkowitz Leave a Comment

With the publication of ITIL® ver. 3 in 2007, a clear stance was taken regarding the scope of change management. The authors of the Service Transition volume pointed out the rather obvious fact that changes at almost any place in the value network of service delivery could impact the quality of the services. Therefore, it […]

Filed Under: Change management Tagged With: agile, automation, change control, change management, Continuous Delivery, customer changes, Devops, infrastructure as code, ITIL, ITSM, operational changes, service life-cycle, Service Management, strategic changes, supplier changes, tactical changes

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