Re: Change Management question

2010-07-28 Thread Guillaume Rheault
27, 2010 6:10 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Change Management question ** Everyone, Given that this discussion has wandered around for a while and in several different directions, I wanted to put together a response. I chose to remove the history of the discussion since there were

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-27 Thread Rick Cook
:* Monday, July 26, 2010 7:03 AM *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG *Subject:* Re: Change Management question ** I was talking to our local ITIL folks about this this morning, and their opinion was that BMC constructed the Release/Change relationship backward - that Change should be above Release. I

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-27 Thread Guillaume Rheault
: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:18 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Change Management question ** The bottom line appears to be that the current construct of Release and Change is not as ITIL-compliant as BMC believes it to be, so you will have to choose whether you want to stick with ITIL

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-27 Thread Rick Cook
] *Sent:* Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:18 AM *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG *Subject:* Re: Change Management question ** The bottom line appears to be that the current construct of Release and Change is not as ITIL-compliant as BMC believes it to be, so you will have to choose whether you want

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-27 Thread Mueller, Doug
Everyone, Given that this discussion has wandered around for a while and in several different directions, I wanted to put together a response. I chose to remove the history of the discussion since there were several different sets of includes with different depths and just start with a clean

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread Rick Cook
:* Friday, July 23, 2010 3:59 PM *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG *Subject:* Re: Change Management question ** Well, having Release at the top allows things to flow Release -- Change/Activity -- Task. Putting Release below Change eliminates the ability to use Tasks, since they can't be directly

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread Guillaume Rheault
: Monday, July 26, 2010 8:02 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Change Management question ** I was talking to our local ITIL folks about this this morning, and their opinion was that BMC constructed the Release/Change relationship backward - that Change should be above Release. I have

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread strauss
: Re: Change Management question ** I was talking to our local ITIL folks about this this morning, and their opinion was that BMC constructed the Release/Change relationship backward - that Change should be above Release. I have heard others say the opposite, so maybe that's true, maybe

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread Rick Cook
Manager University of North Texas Computing IT Center http://itsm.unt.edu/ *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: arsl...@arslist.org] *On Behalf Of *Rick Cook *Sent:* Monday, July 26, 2010 7:03 AM *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG *Subject:* Re: Change Management question

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread strauss
, 2010 10:31 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Change Management question ** So you guys can imagine my dilemma - I have one group of very experienced, respected and trained people (you guys) telling me something that is 180 degrees apart from what another group of experienced, respected

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread Guillaume Rheault
. Guillaume From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [arsl...@arslist.org] on behalf of Rick Cook [remedyr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 11:30 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Change Management question ** So you guys can imagine my

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread Rick Cook
*Subject:* Re: Change Management question ** So you guys can imagine my dilemma - I have one group of very experienced, respected and trained people (you guys) telling me something that is 180 degrees apart from what another group of experienced, respected, and trained people (my ITIL experts

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread Guillaume Rheault
. Guillaume From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [arsl...@arslist.org] on behalf of Rick Cook [remedyr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 12:03 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Change Management question ** So the question boils down

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread Rick Cook
, July 26, 2010 12:03 PM *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG *Subject:* Re: Change Management question ** So the question boils down to this - please correct me if I'm wrong: If Change is being implemented to act as the master application to Release, what does that bring to the table functionally

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread Mahendra Mahalkar
of Rick Cook [remedyr...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, July 23, 2010 3:59 PM *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG *Subject:* Re: Change Management question ** Well, having Release at the top allows things to flow Release -- Change/Activity -- Task. Putting Release below Change eliminates the ability

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-24 Thread Guillaume Rheault
the work to be done Guillaume From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [arsl...@arslist.org] on behalf of Rick Cook [remedyr...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 3:59 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Change Management question ** Well

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Guillaume Rheault
: Re: Change Management question ** We intend to log the actual work in Release, but we want local RFCs to track the scheduling of the change, which would have different acceptable maintenance windows at each location. So the parent change would give, say, a 30 day window for implementation

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Rick Cook
-- *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [ arsl...@arslist.org] on behalf of Rick Cook [remedyr...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:36 AM *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG *Subject:* Re: Change Management question ** We intend to log the actual work in Release, but we want

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Roger Justice
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [arsl...@arslist.org] on behalf of Rick Cook [remedyr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:36 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Change Management question ** We intend to log the actual work in Release, but we want local RFCs

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Guillaume Rheault
System discussion list(ARSList) [arsl...@arslist.org] on behalf of Rick Cook [remedyr...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 1:34 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Change Management question ** Thanks, Guillaume. The OOB Change Calendar has already been identified as an issue, due to its

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Rick Cook
and it is not lited as an option on the Change Relationships tab. This was ITSM 7.6 no Patch. -Original Message- From: Rick Cook remedyr...@gmail.com To: arslist arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Fri, Jul 23, 2010 1:34 pm Subject: Re: Change Management question ** Thanks, Guillaume

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Rick Cook
*To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG *Subject:* Re: Change Management question ** Thanks, Guillaume. The OOB Change Calendar has already been identified as an issue, due to its limitations on time periods. We are looking at options there. Collision and Impact aren't really going to be used

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Guillaume Rheault
. Guillaume From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [arsl...@arslist.org] on behalf of Rick Cook [remedyr...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 2:19 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Change Management question ** The customer intends to have

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread strauss
Computing IT Center http://itsm.unt.edu/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Guillaume Rheault Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 1:29 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Change Management question ** hi Rick, I understand the situation

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Guillaume Rheault
...@arslist.org] on behalf of Guillaume Rheault [guilla...@dcshq.com] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 2:29 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Change Management question ** hi Rick, I understand the situation. But that parent change could be a release entry too. My understanding of the philiosphy

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Rick Cook
:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [ arsl...@arslist.org] on behalf of Rick Cook [remedyr...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, July 23, 2010 2:19 PM *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG *Subject:* Re: Change Management question ** The customer intends to have the Parent RFC as an initial point

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Guillaume Rheault
] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 2:53 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Change Management question ** Could the proper sequence be that an initial RFC would be considered for enterprise application versus local, and if approved for the enterprise you would create a parent Release

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Rick Cook
), to enforce such usage. Guillaume -- *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [ arsl...@arslist.org] on behalf of strauss [stra...@unt.edu] *Sent:* Friday, July 23, 2010 2:53 PM *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG *Subject:* Re: Change Management question

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Roger Justice
And you can do it the way we did it before Release. Change - Change(s)- Task -Original Message- From: Rick Cook remedyr...@gmail.com To: arslist arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Fri, Jul 23, 2010 3:59 pm Subject: Re: Change Management question ** Well, having Release at the top allows

Change Management question

2010-07-22 Thread Rick Cook
We are looking to use CM (7.5) like this: One Project or Release RFC that would dictate what needed to be done at multiple locations. Then subordinate RFCs would be created at each location to handle the exact scheduling and implementation. My question is whether the Parent/Child RFC process

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-22 Thread Roger Justice
Management question ** We are looking to use CM (7.5) like this: One Project or Release RFC that would dictate what needed to be done at multiple locations. Then subordinate RFCs would be created at each location to handle the exact scheduling and implementation. My question is whether the Parent

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-22 Thread Rick Cook
know that the parent in either case cannot be closed until the children changes are completed. -Original Message- From: Rick Cook remedyr...@gmail.com To: arslist arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thu, Jul 22, 2010 11:26 am Subject: Change Management question ** We are looking to use CM