Saturday, August 10, 2013

KPI: Capacity & Demand Management

KPI Definition
Unit of Measure
Frequency
Remarks
Number of capacity related incidents resulting in unavailability of service / resource
Count
Monthly
This KPI highlights poor capacity planning and/or capacity management.
Number of problems for which the root cause has been identified to be a capacity issue
Count
Monthly
This KPI highlights poor capacity planning and/or capacity management.
Number of incidents based on Capacity problems related to Demand Management (market changes, unattended customer need, etc.)
Count
Monthly
This KPI highlights poor demand management.
Percentage of PBAs analyzed and tracked by demand management
%
Monthly
This KPI provides information regarding effectiveness of demand management in determining the PBAs. Ideally all business activities should be tracked.
% Deviation between predicted demand and actual demand
%
Monthly
This KPI signifies the effectiveness of demand management in projecting future demand. Negative deviation (actual demand more than predicted demand) would possibly lead to unavailability of business services and would signify an ineffective demand management process.
% of time when resources wasn’t used or was used below a minimum demand value (expected utilization level), i.e. underutilized
%
Monthly
This KPI signifies the effectiveness of demand management in effectively projecting future demand.
This KPI also signifies the effectiveness of capacity management in effectively projecting future capacity requirement.

Saturday, August 3, 2013

KPI: Service Asset & Configuration Management

KPI Definition
Unit of Measure
Frequency
Remarks
Variance in actual CI information with respect to that recorded in CMDB.
Variance
Quarterly
This KPI reflects the accuracy of CI information stored in CMDB.
Variance in actual asset information with respect to that recorded in asset database respectively.
Variance
Quarterly
This KPI reflects the accuracy of Asset information stored in Asset Database.
Average time between two consecutive CMDB reconciliation
Days
Quarterly
This KPI provides information regarding the reconciliation of CMDB. Larger the time span, greater are the chances for inaccuracy in CMDB information.
Average time between two consecutive asset reconciliation
Days
Quarterly
This KPI provides information regarding the reconciliation of Asset Database. Larger the time span, greater are the chances for inaccuracy in Asset information stored in Asset Database.
Percentage of Configuration Items mapped onto IT services in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) relative to all Configuration Items that can be related to IT services.
%
Quarterly
This KPI highlights the gap w.r.t the services which are yet to be mapped to CIs.
Total number of deviations identified during asset audit
Number
Quarterly
This KPI reflects the accuracy of asset information in Asset Database
Percentage reduction of non recorded CI in CMDB
%
Quarterly
This KPI reflects the accuracy of capturing CIs
Percentage reduction of wrongly recorded CI information in CMDB
%
Quarterly
This KPI reflects the accuracy of update of CI information