applying lean to itil event management
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ITIL V3 Event Management ProcessitSMF UK Conference 2008 – Driving Real ValueRohit Nand I Subbarao Chaganty
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Agenda
1 ITIL V3 Event Management & Lean Principles1
1 Event Management Process & Business Case2
1 Approach for Waste Reduction3
1 Waste Reduction Scope and Benefits4
1 Summary & Other Opportunities within IT Service Management5
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Agenda
1 ITIL V3 Event Management & Lean Principles1
1 Event Management Process & Business Case2
1 Approach for Waste Reduction3
1 Waste Reduction Scope and Benefits4
1 Summary & Other Opportunities within IT Service Management5
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Event Management gets its due with ITIL V3
• I monitor my servers. What else do I need to do?
• Isn’t this a part of the Incident Management process?
• I support and manage Applications. Does this still concern me?
• Whose ownership and responsibility is it?
• Where can I find best practice guidance on Event Management?
Questions Questions before ITIL V3before ITIL V3
• Impact of proactive event monitoring and management on IT stability
• Key enabler for proactive Service Desks
• Improve efficiency through Automation
Outcome Outcome AreasAreas
Event Management is the backbone of IT Service Management playing a significant role in Service Operations and Assurance
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LEAN originated with the Manufacturing industry but its principles are now being successfully applied to Services
The complete elimination of waste so all activities create value for the customer
Our initiative focused on elimination of waste in Event Management to reduce manual efforts by ~ 44%
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We mapped the Lean Principles of Waste Reduction to Event Management to achieve optimization…
1. Inventory Waste
2. Processing Waste
3. Waste due to Waiting Time
4. Transportation Waste
5. Waste of Motion 6. Waste from
Over-Production7. Waste due to Product Defects
Mapping the redundancies and duplication existing in
the current Event Monitoring and Alert
scenarios
As-Is To-Be
Building an optimized Event
Management system
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Agenda
1 ITIL V3 Event Management & Lean Principles1
1 Event Management Process & Business Case2
1 Approach for Waste Reduction3
1 Waste Reduction Scope and Benefits4
1 Summary & Other Opportunities within IT Service Management5
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The Event Management process in question mainly depended on pre-configured Alerts which needed to be responded to and resolved …
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Alert volumes and over crowded monitors are distracting for the analysts and challenge the analysts focus
Risk of missing a critical alertwhile dealing with such a huge number of alerts
Cleanup the monitoring system and ensure only genuine alerts
Hot Spots for Waste Reduction
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Case study – Business Case & Drivers
A focused initiative was kicked off to analyze the alerts and reconfigure and cleanup to ensure following outcomes:
Reduce cost of monitoring activitiesOptimize Service Desk monitoringEnsure accurate priority classificationAutomate manual activitiesImprove team moral
Service Desk operations involved significant efforts towards monitoring alerts triggered by specific application related events:
Batch jobsLog files for key wordsSystem and database spaceKey business processesFile arrivals
• Non-value adding monitoring efforts
• Probability of missing critical alerts• Crowded alert interface
• Reduced monitoring efforts• Ability to detect & address critical
alerts • Cleaner alert interface
We applied waste reduction practices from LEAN on Event Management to improve efficiency and reduce costs
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Agenda
1 ITIL V3 Event Management & Lean Principles1
1 Event Management Process & Business Case2
1 Approach for Waste Reduction3
1 Waste Reduction Scope and Benefits4
1 Summary & Other Opportunities within IT Service Management5
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A data collection drive followed by intensive analysis and validation with the application support groups strengthened the business case…
Analysis Business Case Implementation
• Establish 2 week baselineperiod
• Collect/download alert reports
• Categorize alerts into waste and identify resolutions
• Validate redundancieswith application groups
• Develop the business case (Effort/$aving$)
• Determine implementationrequirements
• Identify risks and mitigation
• Seek agreement and go-ahead from Leadership
• Setup implementation team• Recalibrate the baselines
2 weeks (retrofit changes)• Implement identified
resolution• Validate the reduction
goals for each category
1. Analysis report2. Waste categories
3. Business Case4. Implementation plan
5. Recalibrated baselines6. Realized benefits
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The Solution enables the Service Desk to continually remove alerts they believe to be redundant & aid in further optimization of the process
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Agenda
1 ITIL V3 Event Management & Lean Principles1
1 Event Management Process & Business Case2
1 Approach for Waste Reduction3
1 Waste Reduction Scope and Benefits4
1 Summary & Other Opportunities within IT Service Management5
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Inventory Waste – 32% of alerts warranted “No Remediation Action”
Significant number of alerts configured to prompt manual activities like releasing space, kicking off processes and/or jobs manually
Notification or informational alerts
Prioritization & classification of alerts (Informational, Minor,
Major & Critical)
Alerts as triggers for manual processes
Automation of manual activities significantly reduced this waste. Alerts should be configured to trigger specific ACTION
Automate manual tasks to alert on exception only
Revisit prioritization and clearing of informational alerts
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Processing Waste – 24% of alerts were “Redundant” in nature !!
Alerts for same or related events, e.g. Both Parent and Child jobs triggering alerts within embedded batch job scenarios.
Redundant alerts for embedded jobs
Different monitoring systems creating duplicate alerts
Lack of co-relation between related events
Redundancies identified and eliminated such that ONLY meaningful alerts appear in the system
Co-relate alerts and remove duplicates
Identify relation patterns within events and alerts
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Waste due to Waiting Time – 13% of alerts were performing “Reminder Service”
Alerts that are prime candidates for automation – move from a “Reminder Service”mode to “Alert on Exception only” mode
Lack of Service Desk empowerment
Log file alerts & file arrival alerts
Reminder service alerts for manual jobs
Empower Service Desks; Move towards “Exception Based Alerting”
Eliminate manual task reminder alerts
Automate manual tasks and configure exception alerts
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Few other categories of Alert wastes were identified and marked for either reconfiguration or decommissioning
• Alerts created by new or changed functionality
• Missing alerts for key changes
• Lack of release management & coordination
• Duplicate alerts due to incorrect configuration
• Alerts configured for scheduled downtime
• Misfired alerts – sent to wrong teams / configured to wrong teams
• Lack of proper training or event handling procedures
• Orphan alerts – no clear resolution defined
• Lack of clear event handling procedures
• Crowded alert radars – capturing insignificant events and alerts
13% of the total alerts eliminated belonged to this category. Periodic review of Alerts is a critical activity to maintain optimum alert levels
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Agenda
1 ITIL V3 Event Management & Lean Principles1
1 Event Management Process & Business Case2
1 Approach for Waste Reduction3
1 Waste Reduction Scope and Benefits4
1 Summary & Other Opportunities within IT Service Management5
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By addressing the waste types to remove redundancies and duplication – we were able to achieve effort reduction by 44% (~USD 600,000)
Event Mgmt Efforts reduced by
44%
Some practical considerations
Develop Ability to detect redundant alerts for analysts
Build and maintain a continuous improvement program
Identify opportunities for automation and integration
Consider breaking up vertically aligned support and moving towards a shared services model
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Potential areas within IT Service Management where LEAN based Waste Reduction can be applied to considerably optimize VALUE
Service Transition
Change ManagementConfiguration ManagementTransition PlanningKnowledge ManagementTesting & ValidationRelease & Deployment Mgmt
Service Operations
Event ManagementIncident ManagementProblem ManagementAccess ManagementRequest Fulfillment
Service Design
Service Catalog ManagementCapacity ManagementAvailability ManagementService Continuity MgmtSecurity ManagementSupplier Management
Continual Service Improvement
Service MeasurementService Reporting7 Step Improvement Process
Service Portfolio
Financial Management
Service Strategy
Demand Management
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Lessons from Economics and Psychology in managing the “Change” …
Look within the organization for Positive Variance
Build Partnerships
Measure and Communicate Success
Self-funding of Continuous Improvement initiatives
Design IncentivesAssign Ownership
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