IMPORTANCE OF IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT USER STORIES

Let me explain to you what I mean by IT Service Management User Stories. These are a list of mini requirements derived from a set of master requirements.

Definition: A consistent approach to Service Management User Stories, which derived from Service Management Requirements, underpins the Customer Experience and allows Service Mangement to deliver seamlessly and knowingly deliver the best experience to all new or changed services.

These user stories form the part of  ITIL Design Coordination to develop Service Design Resource and Capabilities to ensure the consistent approach to designing new or changed services across all Service Transition Projects.

These user stories are in support of Projects requiring a new Business service wrap, or a significant change is made to existing Business service.

These user stories based on business and project requirements are captured and agreed at the start of the project life-cycle and will feed into Service Design as well as OSS Design and High-level requirements.

The key aspects of Service Design, which have a significant impact on cost, will be highlighted and fed into Business Case.

Let me explain the key elements of the User Stories

They are

  • Project Plan
  • Service Delivery Model
  • Service Management Resource Plan
  • Service Structure
  • Service Level Management
  • Service Topology
  • Service Transactional Flows
  • Customer Journeys
  • Service Level Agreement
  • Operational Level Agreement
  • Underpinning Contract
  • Service Description
  • Support Model
  • Compliance
  • System Access
  • Fault Management
  • Service Management Tool Foundation Data
  • CMDB & Service Catalogue
  • Reporting
  • Supplier Selection
  • Testing
  • Training
  • Service Validation Criteria
  • Early Life Support
  • OSS Delivery Requirements
  • Change Mangement Requirements
  • Access Control Requirements
  • Operational Level 1 Service Desk Requirements
  • Business Continuity Requirements
  • Problem Management requirements
  • Capacity Management Requirements
  • Operational Run Book and Local Work Instruction requirements

These requirements depend on organisational vision and strategy. Finally, I will detail each requirement in subsequent blogs. So please keep watching. I will end with this quote.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMAC is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMAC is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together

- Steve Jobs

CONCLUSION

Service Management User Stories are functional requirements that play a vital role and stepping stone for successful service design.

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