A service provider involves suppliers to resolve incidents related to third-party software. Resolution of such incidents typically takes longer because of the time required to contact a supplier and other delays. The service provider needs to involve the supplier every time a similar incident occurs again. The incident manager wants to reduce the costs and improve the timeliness of incident resolution. What is the BEST way for the incident manager to achieve this?
A software development company wants to transition from a traditional working model to one focused on innovation and adaptability. The management has recognized a need to support changes in the mindset among employees, particularly those accustomed to the traditional approach. However, the management has encountered resistance from long-standing employees who are accustomed to traditional methods. What strategy should the company adopt to effectively facilitate this cultural shift?
An organization is considering how a new service will be supported when it goes live. There are many teams that will contribute to the support of the service.
Which approach should the organization follow when creating a value stream to support the new service?
Which is often included in an Agile approach to software development?
A service provider is aiming to optimize service management activities to ensure high quality of services and eliminate waste. Each practice and team have been working on continual improvement and implemented a large number of improvements. However, improvement in overall efficiency and in service quality has been lower than expected. What is the BEST approach for the service provider to take to resolve this?
What approach can ensure testing happens earlier in the development lifecycle?
A technology firm has implemented a new ticketing system for managing customer support requests. However, the firm is facing challenges in effectively prioritizing and managing these tickets due to varying levels of urgency and complexity. Some high-priority issues are being delayed, while less critical requests are being addressed too soon, leading to customer dissatisfaction and inefficiencies in the workflow. How should the firm improve this situation?
When verifying that an incident has been resolved, which is an example of value as perceived by a user?
A service provider is redesigning its service management system using value stream management and mapping. The service management team is reviewing the role of practices in various value streams. There is an argument about the role of deployment management as software development and service management teams see its role differently. What is the BEST approach to define the role of deployment management practice in value streams?
An organization has received complaints from customers regarding incident resolution times. The organization is using value stream mapping to visualize the activities involved in restoring service following an outage. The team has designed an optimized flow that begins with the incident being generated by a monitoring tool and ends when service is restored. Leadership is concerned that this approach has failed to provide the insight needed to reduce delays. Which is the BEST action the team can take to address leadership's concern?
During a service design workshop, a development team come up with lots of different possible design solutions, and then analyze these to select one of them to proceed with.
What ‘design thinking’ activity is this an example of?
A service provider works with a diverse group of customers, including corporate, private, and partner organizations. The service provider’s service desk supports users from all customer organizations. However, different users prefer different communication channels. In response to their preferences, the service provider implemented email, chat, phone, and website contact form for the users to contact the service desk. The service desk team is increasingly struggling to monitor all channels and respond timely. Some user queries are not noticed early enough, and the users are complaining. What should the service provider do to improve the situation?
In which circumstances should an organization buy, rather than build, software?
An organization prioritizes its work on a ‘last-in, first-out’ basis.
Which work item should be actioned NEXT?
A service desk team acts as a single point of contact for its users. Service desk team members are the first-line support; however, if they are unable to resolve the incidents, they are escalated to second-line support. This tiered support structure has resulted in large queues of unresolved tickets. Which concept or approach would help the organization resolve this situation?
An organization has found that a significant amount of rework is required, because tickets are escalated from the service desk team to higher tiers of support. This rework causes delays and results in recurring incidents as service desk agents rarely see how incidents are resolved.
Which approach can be used to reduce this rework and its consequences?
An organization experiences delays when creating and changing products and services. This is largely because software developers store code in their individual repositories.
Which approach would help to resolve this situation?
An organization has departments that are structured as Sales, Business Operations, and Quality Control. Each department has its own set of responsibilities, reporting lines and authorities, and they manage their internal processes independently. What type of organizational structure is this an example of?
An organization wishes to acquire a service from a supplier in a different country but with similar working hours.
Which sourcing model should they use?
Which statement about collaboration is CORRECT?
An internal service provider has made the service desk a single point of contact for all user queries, including incidents, service requests, complaints, and compliments. To ensure a fair allocation of the service desk resources, a common rule for processing all incoming queues has been agreed: "first in, first out." It has soon become apparent that some incidents reported by users spend too much time waiting to be processed and triaged by the service desk. This leads to delayed incident resolution and negative business impact. What is the BEST way to improve the situation?