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Chapter 7 ■ Service Operations<br />

Application<br />

Application<br />

management<br />

development<br />

Nature of activities Perpetual. One-time<br />

Scope<br />

Primary focus<br />

Management mode<br />

Measurement<br />

Cost<br />

Lifecycles<br />

All Applications providing<br />

business out<strong>com</strong>e (Inhouse<br />

and bought-in)<br />

Utility and warranty<br />

Service Management -<br />

Repetitive Activities<br />

Measurement against<br />

SLAs<br />

Indirect<br />

Typical Operation and<br />

Improvement<br />

Generally in-house<br />

applications<br />

Utility<br />

Projects (Waterfall,<br />

SCRUM etc)<br />

Project delivery and<br />

timelines<br />

Direct<br />

Software development<br />

Figure 7-12. Application management versus application development<br />

7.6.4 IT Operations Management<br />

The objective of IT operations is to ensure that the services that are in production remain<br />

in status quo, and if there are any anomalies, they are detected early and resolved before<br />

they cause a bigger impact to the customer. The IT operations management is a function<br />

that is involved at the ground level, keeping their ears close to the ground and carrying<br />

out repeatable tasks that are necessary to keep the service floating above the surface.<br />

This function is closely involved in monitoring the service, whether it is the hardware<br />

or the software. If anything were to go wrong, they would pick up the alert and act on it. If<br />

needed, they would functionally escalate to the technical and application management<br />

functions for support.<br />

Note that the activities performed by the IT operations management are basic and<br />

are repetitive in nature. However, to be able to perform this task, the resources involved<br />

must undergo stringent training to ensure that mishaps are avoided from human error<br />

and subtrained resources.<br />

However, today there is a conscious drive to automate repetitive activities, and most<br />

monitoring activities are taken care of by event management tools, which are capable of<br />

logging incidents and generating alerts as necessary. Yet, service provider and customer<br />

organizations rely on human resources to keep tabs on activities through <strong>com</strong>mand<br />

centers, which usually house large monitors with real-time activity and operations<br />

personnel sitting in front of them, feeding jobs, running scripts, and calling other<br />

<strong>com</strong>mand centers for action and counteraction.<br />

As mentioned earlier, IT operations management is divided into two subfunctions:<br />

a. IT operations control<br />

b. Facilities management<br />

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