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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:03 am Post subject: What do you do when the Service Desk tool goes down??
Hi everyone,
I am new to this forum and not sure which one to target with my query, hope you guys can help. I work in first tier support and am interested in knowing what procedures you have in place in your organisation to maintain service to the client when the Service Desk Tool (SDT) falls over and no-one can use it.
What method do you have for recording information necessary to create an incident when the SDT comes back up?
What procedure do you have for passing on details to 2nd and 3rd tier groups during a prolonged period of SDT unavailability?
Do you maintain a level of service to the client or do you drop your level of service under such circumstances?
Can they still have an incident recorded or do you ask them to call back later?
You'll see that I am not concerned with procedures for getting the SDT back up asap, that is not my concern at first tier, just what to do to maintain client service.
We have implemented a spreadsheet replicating data for recording an incident/request/change etc, with each individual analyst creating their own document, recording incident details and then a system of collating spreadsheets and passing data on to 2nd and 3rd tier groups after a certain time period. It is really very messy so if you guys handle things in a simpler way please give me your ideas.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: What do you do when the Service Desk tool goes down??
Felicity,
I'm afraid I'm in a very pedantic mood these days:
frblibrary wrote:
What method do you have for recording information necessary to create an incident when the SDT comes back up?
As your subsequent questions indicate, you "create an incident" there and then. When your SDT service is restored, what you do is bring it up to date with the incidents that have occurred. All you are creating then is the record of everything.
It's not a case of "We can't create an incident, but we'll go ahead and fix it." Incident management is not about the tool, it's about the service.
I know that is what you meant, but it fooled me for a minute.
frblibrary wrote:
Do you maintain a level of service to the client or do you drop your level of service under such circumstances?
You do what you can to maintain your service level. You accept that you cannot succeed only with great reluctance and afterwards you review what happened with an intention to improve next time. _________________ "Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope."
William Penn 1644-1718
Your solution was a good oone, just make sure that the staff are recording all of the incident. Also make sure that all calls are being logged by 1st line support only, this will make it easier for you to be on top of things.
You need to act as a hub, The only entrance and Exit for all incident that come in. So lets say you get an incident and you document it manually and send it to higher level support, make sure to follow up with them to get the solution/updates back as you dont want having lost/unlogged incidents, waste time looking on who logged and where that incident went.
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:45 am Post subject: Thanks everyone!
Thanks everyone for your thoughts and advice
Its great to find a forum that is so active, I have posted this same query on two other forums and am still awaiting replies. Many thanks.
Felicity
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