Information Security Manager

The Information Security Manager is responsible for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of an organization’s IT services, IT infrastructure, IT assets, information and data (in all ways of presentation). He/she is usually involved in an organization wide approach to Security Management.

IT Service Continuity Manager

The IT Service Continuity Manager cares for the provision of the minimum service levels agreed upon in the service level agreements in cases of disaster. To achieve this he/she

• arranges for risks that could seriously impact IT services

• performs risk minimizing precautions for disaster situations by reducing the risk to an acceptable level

• plans activities for the recovery of IT services in disaster cases.

Risk Manager

The Risk Manager is responsible for identifying, assessing and controlling risks. This includes the:

• analysis of criticality of IT assets for the business

• analysis of possible threats for separate IT assets

• evaluation of occurrence probability for different threats

• evaluation of occurrence effects for different threats

• definition of risk monitoring procedures

• definition of risk avoidance activities.

Risk Responsible

The Risk Responsible accounts for the implementation and execution of

• defined procedures for risk monitoring and -surveillance

• defined methods of risk minimization

for the risks accounted for.

Service Catalogue Manager

The Service Catalogue Manager is responsible for developing and maintaining the service catalogue based upon the service portfolio, ensuring that all information within the service catalogue is accurate, up to date and accessible for all authorized persons.

Service Design Manager

The Service Design Manager is responsible that new respective existing services are designed that

• they are in accordance with the IT service strategy

• they can be provided in an economic way by the IT Service Provider

• all accompanying processes, guidelines and documentations for the operation of these services are existing

• all required responsibilities are defined and staffed with appropriately skilled personnel.

Service Level Manager

The Service Level Manager is responsible for the setting up executable service level arrangements

• service level agreements (customer oriented)

• operational level agreements (operations oriented)

• underpinning contracts (supplier oriented)

in a way that the goals defined in these arrangements are reachable in economic manner. The achievement of goals is controlled and reported by him/her.

Service Owner

The Service Owner is responsible for the management of IT service(s) assigned to him/her over their lifecycle. He/she supports the maintenance of the service strategy and the service portfolio.

Solution Architect

The Solutions Architect is responsible for designing IT systems and IT applications required to provide an IT service. This includes the specification of technologies, architectures and data structures as a basis for application development or customization and the technical and organizational realization concept as well.

Supplier Manager

The responsibility of the Supplier Manager covers

• the evaluation of qualified external suppliers

• contract conclusions with external suppliers meeting the business requirements

• lifecycle management of underpinning contracts

• ensuring correct fulfillment of contracts by the external supppliers

• review and valuation of the external suppliers' performance.

Roles of Service Transition

Change Advisory Board

The Change Advisory Board is a team from all organizational units of the IT Service Provider, its customers and (as far as necessary) suppliers, advising the Change Management in classifying, evaluating, prioritizing, scheduling and releasing of changes. It meets on a periodical basis.

Change Manager

The Change Manager authorises, documents and controls all changes in the IT services, the IT infrastructure and their components (configuration items (CIs)) over the change lifecycle, in order to maintain a minimum amount of interruptive effects upon the running operation. In the case of further reaching changes, he/she involves the Change Advisory Board (CAB), in emergency cases the Emergency Change Advisory Board (ECAB).

Change Owner

The Change Owner is the authorized requestor of a change.

Configuration Manager

The Configuration Manager provides information about the IT services and IT infrastructure (IT assets) utilized by IT Service Management. For this purpose he/she maintains a logical model containing

• the components of the IT services (configuration items (CIs))

• their associations and dependencies.

This logical model is maintained in one or more databases (configuration management database (CMDB)), being part of the configuration management system (CMS).

Emergency Change Advisory Board

The Emergency Change Advisory Board is a team consisting of members of the Change Advisory Board, called by the Change Manager on short notice in emergency cases, who make decisions about high impact emergency changes. Selection of members of the Emergency Change Advisory Board is decided at the time a meeting is called depending on the nature of the emergency change.

Knowledge Manager

The Knowledge Manager ensures that the IT organization is always able to collect, analyze, classify, store and provide knowledge and information in an adjusted to the needs manner. His/her primary goal is to improve efficiency by reducing the need to rediscover already existing knowledge.

Project Manager

The Project Manager is responsible for planning and coordination of all resources within his/her projects regarding the project portfolio and the mutual dependencies of projects resulting thereof. He/she manages for reaching the planned project goals within the predicted cost, time and quality estimates.

Project Owner

The Project Owner is the person in charge for a project from the business oriented holistic perspective and the achievement of related project targets.

Release Manager

The Release Manager is responsible for planning, controlling and execution of rollouts from development to test to the live environments. His/her primary objective is to ensure that the integrity of the live environment is protected and that only beforehand tested components are released.

Service Transition Manager

The Service Transition Manager coordinates the sub processes of Service Transition:

• Transition Planning and Support

• Change Management

• Release and Deployment Management

• Service Validation and Test

• Service Asset and Configuration Management

• End of Service Life Cycle

• Know How Management

in a way that the business value of the IT services for the IT Service Consumers planned in the previous phases of the lifecycle

• Service Strategy

• Service Design

can be achieved. He/she informs the other disciplines of IT Service Management about all projects of Service Transition in general.

Solution Developer

The Solution Developer is responsible for providing IT applications and IT systems which grant the required functionality for IT Services. This includes the development and maintenance of custom applications as well as the customization of standard software products, both including all necessary documentation.

Technical Architect

The Technical Architect is responsible for designing IT infrastructure components and IT systems required to provide an IT service.

Test Manager

The Test Manager ensures that systems and system components meet the specified requirements in terms of

• functionality

• integration

• interoperability

• usability

• documentation

• operation.

Roles of Service Operation

1st Level Support

The responsibility of 1st Level Support is to register and classify incoming notifications. In case of incident messages he/she undertakes an immediate effort to restore a failed IT service as quickly as possible in case of foreseeable success. If no ad hoc solution can be achieved, 1st Level Support will transfer the incident to the appropriate technical support groups (2nd Level Support). 1st Level Support also processes service requests of users and keeps users informed about their notifications' status at agreed intervals or status changes.

2nd Level Support

2nd Level Support takes over incidents which cannot be solved immediately by the means of 1st Level Support. If necessary, he/she will request external support, e.g. from software or hardware manufacturers (3rd Level Support). The goal is to restore a failed IT service as quickly as possible, if necessary by implementation of a workaround). If no causal solution can be found, the 2nd Level Support passes on the incident to Problem Management for further processing.

3rd Level Support

3rd Level Support is typically located at external suppliers (hardware or software manufacturers). Its services are requested by 2nd Level Support if their technical expertise is not sufficient respective additional skills are required for solving an incident or problem. The goal is to restore a failed IT service as quickly as possible.

Access Manager

The Access Manager is responsible for approvals of permissions to use an IT service, data and other IT assets for authorized users based upon the specifications of the IT Security Management and cares for the prevention of access for unauthorized users at the same time.

Application Manager

The Application Manager is responsible for operation of, the user support resources in 2nd Level Support for and the support of further development of the applications in his area over their life cycle.

Incident Manager

The Incident Manager is primarily responsible for the fastest possible restoring of a failing IT system in case of incidents. He/she is the first stage of escalation for incidents in case they are not resolvable within the agreed service levels. Furthermore he/she is responsible for the intake and content conforming handover of customer messages of any kind (besides incident messages).

IT Facilities Manager

The IT Facilities Manager is responsible for the physisical infrastructure housing the IT infrastructure

• computer rooms

• power supply

• access controls

• cooling

• monitoring the environment.

IT Operations Manager

The IT Operations Manager has the overall responsibility for all activities of IT operations:

• definition of the guidelines for routine tasks of IT operation (standard operating procedures)

• ensuring that all operational routine tasks are performed in time and properly.

IT Operator

IT Operators are the staff who performs the ongoing operational activities:

• manual event monitoring

• performing backups

• ensuring that scheduled jobs are performed

• installation of standard equipment

• aso.

Major Incident Team

The Major Incident Team is an event driven arranged team of IT executives and technical experts lead by the Incident Manager concentrating on the resolution of a major Incident (grave incident with influence on the company business).

Problem Manager

The Problem Manager is responsible that all problems are handeled over their whole lifecycle to

• avoid the occurrence of incidents

• minimize the negative impacts of not avoidable incidents

• provide information about known errors

• document possible and implemented workarounds

• detect possible future problems proactively.

Service Request Fulfillment Group

The Service Request Fulfillment Group specializes on the fulfilment of certain types of service requests. Typically, 1st Level Support will process simpler requests that can be answered immediately, while all others more extensive or more complex from content perspective are forwarded to the specialized fulfillment group in charge.

Roles of Continual Service Improvement

Continual Service Improvement Manager

The Continual Service Improvement Manager is responsible for managing improvements to the IT services and the IT service management processes over their life cycle regarding the development of business requirements and the IT service strategy. He/she continually measures the performance of the IT Service Provider and designs improvements to IT services, IT infrastructure and IT processes in order to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability of the IT Service Provider.

Process Manager

The Process Manager is responsible for planning and coordination of all operational process related tasks:

• support for process execution

• measurement of process performance indicators

• error detection

• performance reporting.

Process Owner

The Process Owner is responsible for the friction free, economical and goal oriented operation of his/her process(es) (business process, IT process). This includes

• securing the necessary budgetary funding

• goal oriented economic design

• appropriate procedures of process controlling

• change management for the respective process

• continual process improvement.

External Roles (outside the IT Service Provider's organization)

IT Service Consumer

All (internal and external) persons or organizational units, who consume the services of the IT Service Provider.

Prospect

Possible future IT Service Consumer with defined demand for IT services.