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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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