Overview Service Design

Service Design

Conduct the detailed service planning

How will it be supported?

How will it be tested?

How will future development occur?

When is Service Design Complete?

Detailed

Comprehensive

Effective (but not necessarily efficient)

Agreed upon by stakeholders

Detailed blueprint of the service,
including

Components of the service

Identify if resources be shared with another existing service

Test plan

Support plan

Future development plan

Objectives of Service Design

To provide guidance on the design and development of both the services and the service management practices

To ensure the services meet the current
and future needs of the business

Objectives

Coordinate Design Activities

Policies and Standards

Process Quality Control

Forward-Compatible Design

Plans

Costs

Service Management System

Security and Resilience

Efficiency of Effort

Skills and Capabilities

Use the required resources as efficiently and effectively as possible during Service Design

Produce policies that are subordinate to those created during the Service Strategy stage

Policies should be developed alongside the existing local policies in the organization

Assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the 8 design processes

Design Coordination Process

Service Catalog Management Process

Service Level Management Process

Capacity Management

Availability Management

IT Service Continuity Management

Information Security Management Process

Supplier Management Process

Ensure new or changed services may be developed or improved in the future easily and within the given timeframes

Produce or maintain plans, processes, architectures, infrastructures, frameworks, and documents for IT service design

Control the long-term costs associated with service provisioning by reducing, minimizing, or eliminating as much of the costs as possible

Design an efficient and effective
method to manage a given service

Design IT infrastructures that are
secure and resilient

This is difficult to fully achieve, since
there are always tradeoffs

Reduce the requirements for rework in
a given service

Reduce the requirements for urgent or
interim upgrades to a given service

Develop the skills and capabilities required of the personnel involved in the service

Develop the functions and processes of
the service provider