A Tool for IT Service Management Process Assessment for Process Improvement

  • Anup Shrestha
  • Aileen Cater-Steel
  • Wui-Gee Tan
  • Mark Toleman
  • Terry Rout
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 7983)

Abstract

Process assessments can improve IT service management (ITSM) processes but the assessment method is not always transparent. This paper outlines a project to develop a software-mediated process assessment tool to enable transparent and objective ITSM process assessment. Using the international standards for ITSM and process assessment, the tool is being developed following the goal-question-metric (GQM) approach in collaboration with academics, standards committee members and ITSM practitioners.

Keywords

ITSM process assessment tool ISO/IEC 20000 ISO/IEC 15504 ITIL Goal-Question-Metric approach 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Anup Shrestha
    • 1
  • Aileen Cater-Steel
    • 1
  • Wui-Gee Tan
    • 1
  • Mark Toleman
    • 1
  • Terry Rout
    • 1
  1. 1.University of Southern QueenslandToowoombaAustralia

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