Recalculating SLAs

[Virginia]

Times below are for demo purposes!

I have an SLA for a Priority 2 that’s one hour. I have another SLA for a Priority 1 that’s 15 minutes.

A ticket is submitted at a level of Priority 2.
Open Time: 5:00pm
Due Date: 6:00pm

30 minutes goes by.

Someone decides, no…this really should have been a Priority 1, and changes the record.

The question is should the SLA for the Priority 1 (that’s 15 minutes) be calculated based on the true Open Time of the ticket (5:00PM) or at the time the priority is changed (6:30PM)?

Obviously if you recalculate based on the true Open time of the record (5:00PM) by the time you change the priority you’ve busted your SLA; so I’m thinking it should be based on when the Priority was changed to a P1.

Thoughts?

Thank you for your time!
V

[UKVIKING]

You should have a process/ policy in regards to the SLA for incident where the priority has changed - up or down

In addition, you should have definitions as to when to move or down and to accept the consequences of the change

Now.. having said that

Who made the change ?
Is it some one who has the authorization to ?
Was this documented in the incident as to why ?

Finally, as SLAs are calculated over time - monthly, the individual ones which go over the stated SLA for that classification will more than likely get absorbed
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John Hardesty
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