Best Practices

The following are best practices from this chapter:

• Develop policies and procedures for change management. These policies and procedures should leverage Service Manager capabilities as much as possible.

• Develop request offerings and service offerings to meet the requirements of the organization.

• Deploy the Self-Service Web Portal to allow end users to create their own incidents to reduce the help desk workload.

• Deploy the Self-Service Web Portal to allow end users to view the status of their incidents.

• Consider the benefits of using release management to organize enterprise software deployment activities.

• Create a notification template and workflow to notify users on the final status of their change requests.

• Use ...

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