Change ManagementPractitioners Forum

Thursday Oct 10th, 2013

Shawn McKenzieJon Dowell

Agenda• Housekeeping• Introductions• What does a good CAB look like?• Change Reporting…how do we show results?• How can we improve our Post Implementation Reviews?• Next Steps• Upcoming Events

Housekeeping

Welcome to Gibson EnergyFire Alarms & Washrooms

Katharina Stephens

Introductions

Name, Company, & Experience

Jon Dowell / Shawn McKenzie

Facilitator – Shawn McKenzie

• Founding partner of SignalFire Inc, an independent ITSM and Organizational Change Management consulting practice

• Over 12 years experience implementing IT, OCM and Process Optimization solutions for clients in:

• Oil & Gas

• Telecommunications

• Government

• Mining

• Utilities

• Certified ITIL ver.2 Master and ver.3 Expert

• Prosci Change Management certified- Sorrento, Italy

• Cobit Practitioner certified

• Focus on process before tools and technology

• ITIL Foundations instructor for over 250 students with 99% pass rate

• itSMF board member for the last 5 years

Facilitator – Jon Dowell

• Senior Consultant with KSLD Consulting.

• 15 years of experience solving I.T. mysteries.

• Facilitation and critical thinking during:

• Major Incidents

• Problem investigations

• Project quality assessments prior to go-live

• Project warranty periods

• Training and mentoring

• Critical thinking

• Root cause analysis

• Impact assessments

• Potential risks associated with requests for change

• KSLD Consulting specializes in I.T. Problem Management and problem solving for today’s busy world.

Objectives of the Practitioner Forum

• To facilitate sharing of information and experiences between like minded practitioners

• To provide an opportunity for networking

• To grow the level of knowledge of participants

How we operate• We try to meet quarterly as a group

• The group drives future agenda based on interest levels

• We respect the difference in our level of experiences

• We participate and share freely.

   What does a good CAB look like?

Jon Dowell

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What is the purpose of a CAB?

ITIL Definition• “The Change Advisory Board (CAB) is a body that exists to support the authorization of changes

and to assist Change Management in the assessment and prioritization of changes.”

ITIL v3 Key Comments• “…members should be chosen who are capable of ensuring that all changes within the scope of

the CAB are adequately assessed from both a business and a technical viewpoint”

• “…CAB needs to include people with a clear understanding across the whole range of stakeholder needs.”

• “…CAB should involve suppliers when that would be useful”

• “…should reflect both users’ and customers’ views”

• “Is likely to include the problem manager and service level manager and customer relations staff for at least part of the time”

• “…CAB should have stated and agreed evaluation criteria.”

• CAB meetings maybe electronic or face-to-face

Quotes direct from ITIL v3 Service Transition copy write 2007

Fit for purpose…

Key aspects of your culture• Risk tolerance

• Process tolerance

• Size of organization (IT and overall)

• Communication norms (electronic & face to face)

Leadership Support• Ownership & accountability from senior management

• Service Level Management support

• Vendor Management support

• Business Relationship support

Key Points of Governance• RFCs require an “Approved” vote from each member to gain full approval

• An absent vote is considered “Not approved”

• Votes electronically captured throughout week (usually in advance of formal CAB meeting)

• Each member reviews changes based on business value and risk mitigation

• Change Manager provides final approval to ensure process governance AND risk mitigation

• Lower level / pre-approved changes require full CAB vote once per year to retain status

• Guests present specific details relevant to high impact changes

   Change Reporting…how do we show results?

Shawn McKenzie

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What has your experience been with regards to the purpose of IT Change Management?

What has your experience been with regards to the purpose of IT Change Management?

Purpose drives process direction

What has your experience been with regards to the purpose of IT Change Management?

Purpose drives process direction

• Protect the Production environment

• Meet external compliance requirements

• Pass internal audit

• Demonstrate good asset governance to our shareholders

• Prevent “that” from ever happening again!

Measure what you need to manage

1. When Changes tend to break things or need to be redone

• Number of Changes that result in Incidents or unplanned outages

• Failure rate of tested vs. non-tested Emergency Changes

• % of Changes that needed to be backed out

• Quarterly trend line of Urgent (Hotfix) Change volume

Measure what you need to manage

2. Managing Change planning and schedule

• Percentage of Planned vs. Unplanned Changes

• Number of Changes scheduled outside of maintenance window

• Average time to close Changes

• Queue management: # of Open vs. Closed Changes during period

• Planning metric: Average lead time from submit to deployment

• Number of Changes per critical app/system over time

• # of Changes delayed due to human or technical resource constraints

Measure what you need to manage

3. Quality Management

• % of Changes rejected or rescheduled due to incomplete data

• Number of Changes that resolve or mitigate Security concerns

• % of Changes not successfully presented at CAB

Next Steps

Jon Dowell

Next Steps• Future Sessions – Change

• 2014

• Future Sessions – Problem• 2014

• Future Sessions – Service Catalogue• Nov 14, 2013

• Future Sessions – Incident Management• TBD

• Potential Topics

Upcoming Events!

• itSMF Breakfast Events• Oct 24th - Lessons learned and practical experiences in Organizational

Change Management, by Jody Germaine

15 Minute Break

Thank you!

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