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D1 Service Level Management Grade 1 Description


Author Version 0.1 Date 16/02/2014

Overview
The purpose of Service Level Management (SLM) is to ensure that all operational services and their performances are measured accurately and consistently such that the services and reports produced meet the needs of the business and customer. This is achieved by ensuring that Service level agreements (SLAs) are attainable and can be measured for performance. The role of the Service Portfolio and Service catalogue is significant as this provides the necessary knowledge about services to generate suitable SLAs. Objectives Define, document, agree, monitor, measure, report and review the level of services provided Provide and improve the relationship and communications with business and customers Ensure measurable targets are developed for all services Monitor customer satisfaction with service quality Ensure that customers have a clear, unambiguous expectation of service levels to be delivered Ensure proactive measures to improve service levels are implemented where cost-justifiable

Development of SLA frameworks It may be necessary to develop a framework of SLAs (and OLAs) where different customers have differing service expectations. Options include: Service-based SLA: where the SLA covers the same service to all customers Customer-based SLA: where an individual customer (or group) has a specific requirement for a service Multi-level SLA: This covers 3 layers of agreement, corporate level (for generic SLM, appropriate to all customers), customer level and service level. Operational Level Agreements (OLA) Internal suppliers of services such as Development or Support should have OLAs established that are not necessarily aligned with SLAs that they supply to. For example, an SLA that an incident will

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be resolved in 48 hours but the OLA for Support might be 24 hours to process as the SLA must take into account the 24 hours for Development to implement (as part of their 24 hour OLA). Note that SLAs agree with external suppliers are referred to as Underpinning Contracts. These are dealt with in the process Supplier Management (D7)

Metrics
Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are used to judge the performance of a service. Measures include:
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Number or percentage* of service targets being met Number and severity of service breaches Number of services with up to date SLAs Number of services with timely reports and reviews

Do not use percentages for populations below 100

Roles
Senior (Project) management; Product manager

People

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