Service Transition Initiation Template
Service Description
Definition
Users
Current status
Service Documentation
User Guides
Please provide details in relation to the following bullets. If the information is not yet available please comment with ‘not yet available’ or as appropriate.
- Service name
- Webpage
- Contact person
- Activity and task
- Maturity
- Project lifetime
- Service definition
- Operational model
- Service users and operators
- Type of end-users with number of current users and expected numbers of users
- Current status
- Any changes/updates planned?
Service Documentation
What documentation do we need? For example project documentation, including product description (CBA, AC, PID etc.) and technical documentation (admin/user/dev guide)
User Guides
- User user facing documentation (web sites etc.)
Operational Guide
- Application management requirements
- day Day to day service management
- Update processes
- Define who triggered the update, how its tested and implemented
- Software version updates
Deployment Guide
- Infrastructure Hosting Requirements
- VMs
- Hardware and network requirements
- CPUs
- RAM
- Storage
- Network Connectivity
- High Availability and backup
- Monitoring
- Firewall and Accessibility needs
- System Administration Requirements
- Operating system
- Standard software requirements
- Deployment process
FAQs
- Processes for updates on the machine
- Application management requirements
User Support
- Customer Support
- User communication channels (mailing lists, etc.)
- Learning resources (FAQ, etc.)
...
- Describe customer support process
Software Stack
- Please list each software used in service and provide name, URL, in-house/external, issue tracker link etc.)
Validation Areas
What needs to be audited?
- Functional Testing
- Quality Testing
- Security Validation
- Documentation Validation
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Operation Procedures
- Please provide details on th backup procedures and security procedures