Features and Benefits
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The business-focused, best-practice guide to succeeding with ITIL change and release management
* Brings together the make-or-break lessons many consultants don't know or won't tell
* Offers a comprehensive roadmap for planning, implementation, and operation
* Addresses crucial ground-level issues ranging from data migration to successful piloting
* By the author of IBM Press's highly successful Implementing ITIL Configuration Management
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments xv
About the Author xvi
Part I: Planning 1
Chapter 1: Change and Release Management: Better Together 3
Chapter 2: Discovering and Managing Requirements 13
Chapter 3: Defining Change and Release Management Processes 27
Chapter 4: Building Logical Work Flows 41
Chapter 5: Completing the Implementation Plan 51
Part II: Implementing 65
Chapter 6: Choosing the Tools 67
Chapter 7: Migrating or Consolidating Data 85
Chapter 8: Bringing the Process to Life 97
Chapter 9: Choosing and Running a Pilot 109
Chapter 10: Moving from Pilot to Production 121
Part III: Operational Issues 133
Chapter 11: The Forward Schedule of Change 135
Chapter 12: Building the Definitive Media Library 143
Chapter 13: Defining Release Packages 153
Chapter 14: Auditing and Compliance Management 163
Part IV: Reaping the Benefits 173
Chapter 15: Business Impact Analysis 175
Chapter 16: Reports and Service Levels 185
Chapter 17: Linking to Other Processes 199
Index 209
About the Authors
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Larry Klosterboer is a certified IT architect specializing in systems engineering. He works for IBM's global service delivery team out of Austin, Texas. He has more than twenty years of experience in service delivery, spanning technologies from mainframe to networking to desktop computing. Most of that time has been spent designing and implementing service management solutions. Larry currently works as a lead systems engineer for IBM's large outsourcing customers.
