Saturday, July 27, 2013

KPI: Change Management

KPI Definition
Unit of Measure
Frequency
Remarks
Number of open changes
Count
Weekly / Monthly
This KPI provides information regarding the changes that are currently open.
Percentage of changes that has been rolled back
%
Monthly
This KPI provides information about the success of a change implementation. It signifies the quality of change planning, build and test. Value for this KPI should be minimum (tending towards zero).
Percentage of emergency changes
%
Monthly
This KPI highlights the health of IT environment. Higher the value of this KPI, more unstable the existing IT environment is.
Percentage of changes that do not have status as "Completed"
%
Monthly
This KPI signifies the changes that have been implemented but has not been closed. This may mean that PIR has not been completed. Value for this KPI should be minimum.
Percentage of scheduled changes that have not been implemented as scheduled
%
Monthly
This KPI provide information regarding number of changes that are part of FSC but have not implemented. It signifies the effectiveness and quality of change planning.
The number of incidents traced to implemented Changes.
count
Weekly / Monthly
This KPI highlight the impact of a change that has not been rolled back and may have been considered to be successful during PIR. It also indicates the quality of impact analysis and testing.
Percentage of unauthorized changes
%
Monthly
This KPI highlights the changes that have been implemented bypassing the change management process

Saturday, July 20, 2013

KPI: Request Fulfillment

KPI Definition
Unit of Measure
Reporting Frequency
Remarks
Number of service requests
Count
Weekly / Monthly
This KPI will be useful in reporting the load of service request that will be handled in any given week / month.  This can also be reported with further classification based on application, priority, user, etc.
Number of service request by Status
Count
Weekly / Monthly / Quarterly
This KPI will be useful in reporting service request volume based on status (Assigned, In progress, Pending, Resolved, Closed and Cancelled) priority wise.
Number of service request by Operational Categorization
Count
Monthly / Quarterly
This KPI will be useful in reporting service request volume based on operational categorization (Application, Access, Desktop or Laptop, Application access, Network, Failure, Server or Server Components, Request, Hardwar, etc.) priority wise.
Percentage service request handled within agreed response time
Percentage
Weekly / Monthly
This will be useful in reporting the response time for all service requests based on priority.
Percentage service request that breached agreed response time
Percentage
Weekly / Monthly
This will be useful in reporting the tickets that have breached the response time SLA for all service request based on priority.
Average response time
Minutes
Weekly / Monthly
This will be useful in reporting the average response time based on priority.
Percentage service request fulfilled  within agreed resolution time
Percentage
Weekly / Monthly
This will be useful in reporting the fulfillment time for all service request based on priority.
Percentage service request that breached agreed resolution time
Percentage
Weekly / Monthly
This will be useful in reporting the tickets that have breached the resolution time SLA for all service request based on priority.
Number of service requests that were wrongly
Count
Weekly / Monthly
This KPI is useful in reporting ticket hops, i.e., wrongly assigned tickets.
Percentage of service request reopened by user
Percentage
Weekly / Monthly / Quarterly
This KPI highlights the percentage of service request re-opened (along with number of tickets re-opened and total number of tickets for the mentioned period).
Backlog of unresolved service request
Days
Weekly / Monthly
This KPI highlights unresolved service request by aging for assigned resolver group typically highlighted as pending for number of days 0-3 days, 5-10 days, 10-20 days and so on; Also used to focus the top 10 pending tickets
Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSAT) of service request
Number
Daily / Weekly
This KPI provides average qualitative assessment of the end-user experience and feedback on fulfillment of service request
Percentage of incidents wrongly logged as service request
Percentage
Monthly
This KPI determines the effectiveness of service desk personnel in correctly identifying service request. Ideally this should be 0.

Saturday, July 13, 2013

KPI: Problem Management

KPI Definition
Unit of Measure
Frequency
Remarks
Number of problems
Count
Monthly
This KPI will be useful in reporting problem volume by Status (Assigned, In progress, Closed, cancelled, others) priority wise.
Percent of Problems for which a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) was completed
Percentage
Monthly
This KPI provides the insight on effectiveness of resolver group in determining RCA of problems.
Backlog of unresolved problems
Days
Fortnightly
This KPI highlights unresolved problems by aging for assigned resolver group typically highlighted as pending for number of days 11-30 days, 30-60 days and so on; Also used to focus the top 10 pending problems
Number of incident per problem
Count
Weekly / Monthly
This KPI provides information on number of incidents linked to the same problem before problem resolution. It helps in determining the impact and change in impact.
Number of incident per known error
Count
Quarterly / Half-yearly/ Yearly
Number of incidents linked to the known error. It helps in determining the effectiveness of the provided workaround or permanent fix.
Percentage of problems for which Request of Change (RFC) has been raised
Percentage
Quarterly / Half-yearly/ Yearly
This KPI determines the problems which have resulted in a change.  It can be a potential indicator for the adherence of change management process by problem management team.
Percentage of pro-actively created problems
Percentage
Quarterly / Half-yearly/ Yearly
This KPI determines the effective functioning of pro-active problem management
Percentage reduction in incident count
Percentage
Quarterly / Half-yearly/ Yearly
This KPI provides information regarding the effectiveness of a problem resolution and CAPA. Ideally the reduction should be 100%.

Saturday, July 6, 2013

KPI: Incident Management

KPI Definition
Unit of Measure
Reporting Frequency
Remarks
Number of Incident tickets assigned to Incident management team / Service Desk
Count
Weekly / Monthly
This KPI will be useful in reporting the incident load that will be handled in any given week / month.  This can also be reported with further classification based on application, priority, user, etc.
Number of Incidents by Status
Count
Weekly / Monthly / Quarterly
This KPI will be useful in reporting incident volume based on status (Assigned, In progress, Pending, Resolved, Closed and Cancelled) priority wise.
Number of Incidents by Operational Categorization
Count
Monthly / Quarterly
This KPI will be useful in reporting incident volume based on operational categorization (Application, Access, Desktop or Laptop, Application access, Network, Failure, Server or Server Components, Request, Hardwar, etc.) priority wise.
Percentage Incidents handled within agreed response time
Percentage
Weekly / Monthly
This will be useful in reporting the response time for all incidents based on incident priority.
Percentage Incidents that breached agreed response time
Percentage
Weekly / Monthly
This will be useful in reporting the tickets that have breached the response time SLA for all incidents based on incident priority.
Average response time
Minutes
Weekly / Monthly
This will be useful in reporting the average response time based on incident priority.
Percentage Incidents resolved within agreed resolution time
Percentage
Weekly / Monthly
This will be useful in reporting the resolution time for all incidents based on incident priority.
Percentage Incidents that breached agreed resolution time
Percentage
Weekly / Monthly
This will be useful in reporting the tickets that have breached the resolution time SLA for all incidents based on incident priority.
Average Time To Resolve Incidents by Service desk team / Incident Management team (Service Restored)
Minutes
Weekly / Monthly
This will be useful in reporting the restoration time achieved on each incident and can be further classified down to lower level incidents. (Based on application, priority, user etc.)
Number of tickets that were wrongly assigned to the Incident management group
Count
Weekly / Monthly
This KPI is useful in reporting ticket hops, i.e., wrongly assigned tickets.
Number of incidents registered for CI
Count
Monthly / Quarterly / Yearly
This KPI enables identification of top 10/25/50 CIs which are contributing maximum incidents priority wise.
Percentage of tickets reopened by user
Percentage
Weekly / Monthly / Quarterly
This KPI highlights the percentage of incidents re-opened (along with number of tickets re-opened and total number of incidents for the mentioned period).
Backlog of unresolved incidents
Days
Weekly / Monthly
This KPI highlights unresolved incidents by aging for assigned resolver group typically highlighted as pending for number of days 0-3 days, 5-10 days, 10-20 days and so on; Also used to focus the top 10 pending tickets
Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSAT) of incidents
Number
Daily / Weekly
This KPI provides average qualitative assessment of the end-user experience and feedback on resolution of the incident
Percentage of incidents that are Major Incidents
Percentage
Weekly
This KPI highlights the health of the IT environment.
Percentage of service requests wrongly logged as incidents
Percentage
Monthly
This KPI determines the effectiveness of service desk personnel in correctly identifying incidents. Ideally this should be 0.