Connecting ITSM to IT governance

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IT governance helps customers and providers talk about value, costs, and risks–three key components in the definition of an IT service. IT service management can support IT governance by making IT more transparent, by adding control points for governance, and by better connecting what IT does to what the institution most needs. Conversely, IT governance can support IT service management by advocating for IT services and by providing a high-level decision-making framework, firm commitments, policies, and architectural standards. We’ll briefly review what IT governance is, and then talk about the role of specific IT service management processes in supporting IT governance–processes such as IT service portfolio management, IT financial management, IT supplier management, IT change management, and IT continual service improvement. We’ll also briefly introduce how COBIT 5 can help ITIL practitioners connect service management capabilities to IT governance.

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JOHN BORWICK, MANAGER AND FOUNDERHIGHER EDUCATION IT MANAGEMENT, LLC

Connecting ITSM to IT Governance

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John Borwick, PMP®, ITIL® Expert

Wake Forest University, 2003-2012 Director of Service

Mgt PMO Director

Manager and Founder,HEIT Management

Career goal: Make people’s lives easier by improving how higher education IT is managed.

johnb@heitmgt.com

Higher Education IT Management, LLC

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Agenda

Background: ITSM, IT governancePreparing for an IT governance meeting

Providing visibility and transparency Understanding and explaining IT costs Understanding value Understanding risks Responding to IT governance concerns

Ways IT governance can help ITSMCOBIT as a reference sourceQ&A

Background: IT service management

IT service management (ITSM)

Organizations: itSMF, HDI, ITIL CGGuidance: ITIL®, ISO 20000Certifications (for people): ITIL

foundations, ITIL intermediate certificates, ITIL expert

ITIL’s definition of a service

“A service is a means of providing value to customers by facilitating outcomes they want to achieve without the ownership of specific costs and risks.”

Specific costs Specific risks

Hardware support needs to be renewed

Database administrators need to go to training

IT tool stops working due to a software patch

Water leak in the data center

Examples of specific costs and risks

Background: IT governance

Aside: what is “governance?”

Board of Trustees

IT governance

Organizations: ISACA, IT Governance Institute

Guidance: ISO38500, Implementing and Improving IT Governance, …

Certifications (for people): CGEIT® (Certified in the Governance of Enterprise Information Technology)

IT governance fundamentals

Cost

Value

Risk

IT providers own costs and some risks

Cost

Value

Risk

IT consumers own value and some risks

Cost

Value

Risk

IT Consumers IT Providers

ValueTime saved in

recruitingImproved candidate

qualityRisksPeople

understanding the technology

CostsOS licensesTime spent on

maintenanceRisksHardware failureUnanticipated

demand

Example: Admissions CRM tool

IT governance depends on effective IT management practices

IT governance cannot make decisions in a vacuum

IT governance will push you to improve processes

Build improvement loops: Make and communicate guesses based on what you

have Plan for incremental improvements from meeting to

meeting

Preparing for an IT governance meeting

Multiple IT governance groups

Board-level IT

governance ?

Cabinet-level IT

governance

Academic IT governance

Administrative IT

governance

Visualize a cabinet-level IT governance meeting

ProvostCFODean(s)CIOVP, Alumni RelationsVP, Facilities

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Providing visibility and transparency

Service catalog management

Business service catalog, or “Lines of Service”

Use the language of the catalogHighlight existing IT work

70%

30%

Operations vs. En-hancements

OperationsEn-hance-ments

Service catalog reports:demand by department

Service # incidents # requests # changes

Business intelligence

87 220 85

Desk-side support

350 103 9

Web site support

20 30 20

… … … …

IT service catalog report for Finance for CY2013Q4

Service portfolio management

Add service information to your project portfolio reporting

Raise the visibility for ongoing IT support costs

Service pipeline report

Project Status Line of service

Customer(s)

Net impact to IT operations

Admissions CRM tool

In progress,On schedule

Administrative services

Admissions +1 IT FTE

Virus scanning tool

In progress, Behind schedule

Desk-side support

All departments

-0.5 IT FTE

… … … …

Understanding and explaining IT costs

Service level management

Define and approve a global service level Access to the Service Desk Next-business-day response

Build “tiers” of service Gold: 24x7x365, one hour response Silver: 24x7x365, four hour response Bronze: 9x5, next business day response

Costs of service by tier

Tier Cost

Gold $300,000

Silver $200,000

Bronze $150,000

• Email service:

• Customers pay for exceptions

IT financial management

Translate the IT budget into IT service costs

Non-personnel Direct costs (e.g. server hardware for the LMS) Indirect costs

Personnel “Billable hours” vs. overhead

IT costs by service

Service Costs (budgeted) Service level

Administrative support

$300,000 Gold

Web site support $150,000 Silver

Reporting $300,000 Bronze

Personnel set-aside for project work

$250,000 --

Total operating budget $1 million

Understanding value

Business relationship management

Proactive customer meetingsBriefings to CIO and IT leadership

Customer satisfaction reports

Reports by Service Desk contact Service Desk to end users

Reports by service Business Relationship Management to the service’s

customersOverall IT satisfaction reports

Business Relationship Management to campus

Demand management

Working with customers to understand demand

Influencing demand, e.g. through marketing

Understanding risks

Service Design “warranty” processes

Availability managementCapacity managementIT service continuity managementIT security management

Provide “levers” to IT governance

Disaster recovery for the Learning Management System has not been done. Options:

1. $0: All records lost if there’s a fire2. $100k/yr: Records stored off-site; returning

the service to production would take 2 weeks and $500k

3. $1 million + $100k/yr: Records stored off-site and a “hot standby” environment will be ready

Responding to IT governance concerns

Service Improvement Programs (SIPs)

Standard process for improvingRaises the visibility of service improvements

Ways IT governance can help ITSM

Ways IT governance can help ITSM

SponsorshipAdvocate for the language of IT servicesFocus on the customer

COBIT as a reference source

Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)

Organization: ISACAGuidance: COBIT 5 (and many

supplementary publications)Certifications (for people): COBIT 5

Foundation, COBIT 5 Implementation, COBIT 5 Assessor

COBIT 5’s processes

37 processes including governance processes: EDM01 Ensure Governance Framework Setting and

Maintenance EDM02 Ensure Benefits Delivery EDM03 Ensure Risk Optimisation EDM04 Ensure Resource Optimisation EDM05 Ensure Stakeholder Transparency

APO09: Manage Service Agreements

APO09.01: Identify IT servicesAPO09.02: Catalogue IT-enabled services

Inputs include an “approved resources plan” from IT governance

APO09.03: Define and prepare service agreements

APO09.04: Monitor and report service levelsAPO09.05: Review service agreements and

contracts

APO09 “Related Guidance”

ISO/IEC 200005.0 Planning and implementing new or changed

services6.1 Service level management

ITIL V3 2011Service Strategy, 4.4 Demand ManagementService Strategy, 4.2 Service Portfolio ManagementService Design, 4.2 Service Catalogue ManagementService Design, 4.3 Service Level Management

Review

Background: ITSM, IT governancePreparing for an IT governance meeting

Providing visibility and transparency Understanding and explaining IT costs Understanding value Understanding risks Responding to IT governance concerns

Ways IT governance can help ITSMCOBIT as a reference source

Q & A

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