Defining a problem management process

[GSS1]

Hi all


I am a developer and I have been charged with coming up with a problem management process in our organisation (We develop software).


I have no ITIL experience but I am reading the fundamentals and I am working with ITIL-certified people. How should I start with defining this process?


Thanks

[Diarmid]

Start by identifying objectives (including scope) of the process in the context of your organization.

Or to put it another way, ask those who gave you the task to explain what they want the process to do. This will include defining what constitutes a problem in your organization.

The ITIL guidance relates to IT service management and this is quite a different activity from software development.

[Boydness]

I am a developer and I have been charged with coming up with a problem management process in our organisation (We develop software).

Are you defining the process for the entire organization or for the problem management process as it applies to your group?


Boydness

[UKVIKING]

GSS1

As both Boydness and Diarmid have pointed out, this aint easy

I too will chime in here

1 - Why you ? Why are you being asked to put in a PM process - which is sort of IT SM / ITIL not SDLC instead of the ITIL Certified folk. Why are they not the drivers for this and your team are involved. Does the company not understand what PM is

As ITSM / ITIL PM is finding the root cause of service impacting incidents - esepcially if the R.C is unknown as well as providing a solution, how does this fit with the S/W Team

Do you a) develop custom application and support the developed applications until the application has cease viability b) support the developed applicationa and develop bug fixes and releases c) something else

PM for S/W is bug fix basically

Investigating application faults and writing a solution and then ....