Problem Management
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  • Why problem management?
    • To resolve problems quickly
    • To ensure resources are prioritised to resolve problems in the most appropriate order based on the business need
    • To proactively identify and resolve problems and known errors thus minimising incident occurrences
    • To improve the productivity of support staff
    • To provide relevant management information
  • Responsibilities
    • Problem control
      • Problem identification and recording
      • Problem classification
      • Problem investigation and diagnosis
    • Error control
      • Error identification and recording
      • Error assessment
      • Recording error resolution
      • Error closure
      • Monitoring resolution progress
    • Assistance with the handling of major incidents
    • Proactive prevention of problems
      • Trend analysis
      • Targeting support action
      • Providing information to the organisation
    • Obtaining management information from problem data
    • Completing problem reviews
  • Training and Planning
    • Good problem management relies on an efficient incident management process, so implement in parallel or immediately after incident management
    • If resources are scarce concentrate on problem and error control (reactive), and leave proactive problem management until later, after service monitoring activities are in place and base data captured
    • Focus on few key problems that are causing the greatest pain to the business. 20% of the problems can cause 80% degradation of service

 

 
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