- Business is moving faster than ever and IT is getting more demands at a faster pace.
- Many IT organizations have traditional structures and approaches that have served them well in the past. However, these frameworks and approaches alone are no longer sufficient for today’s challenges and rapidly changing environment.
- The inability to adaptively design and deliver services as requirements change has led to diminishing service quality and an increase in shadow IT.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Being Agile is a mindset. It is not meant to be prescriptive, but to encourage you to leverage the best approaches, frameworks, and tools to meet your needs and get the job done now.
- The goal of service management is to enable and drive value for the business. Service management practices have to be flexible and adaptable enough to manage and deliver the right service value at the right time at the right level of quality.
Impact and Result
- Understand Agile principles, how they align with service management principles, and what the optimal states for agility look like.
- Use Info-Tech’s advice and tools to perform an assessment of your organization’s state of agility, identify the gaps, and create a custom roadmap to incorporate agility into your service management practice.
- Increase business satisfaction. The ultimate outcome of having agility in your service delivery is satisfied customers.
Workshop: Build a Roadmap for Service Management Agility
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Define the Optimal States for Agility in Service Management
The Purpose
- Understand agility and how it can complement service management.
- Understand how the components of culture, structure, processes, and resources enable agility in service management.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Clear understanding of Agile principles.
- Identifying opportunities for agility.
- Understanding of how Agile principles align with service management.
Activities
Outputs
1.1
Understand agility.
- Summary of Agile principles.
1.2
Understand how Agile methodologies can complement service management through culture, structure, processes, and resources.
- Summary of optimal components in culture, structure, processes, and resources that enable agility.
Module 2: Assess Your Current State of Agility in Service Management
The Purpose
- Assess your current organizational agility with respect to culture, structure, processes, and resources.
- Identify your agility strengths and weaknesses with the agility score.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understand your organization’s current enablers and constraints for agility.
- Have metrics to identify strengths or weaknesses in culture, structure, processes, and resources.
Activities
Outputs
2.1
Complete an agility assessment.
- Assessment score of current state of agility.
Module 3: Build the Roadmap for Service Management Agility
The Purpose
- Determine the gaps between the current and optimal states for agility.
- Create a roadmap for service management agility.
- Create a stakeholders presentation.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Have a completed custom roadmap that will help build sustainable agility into your service management practice.
- Present the roadmap to key stakeholders to communicate your plans and get organizational buy-in.
Activities
Outputs
3.1
Create a custom roadmap for service management agility.
- Completed roadmap for service management agility.
3.2
Create a stakeholders presentation on service management agility.
- Completed stakeholders presentation on service management agility.