The Practicality Of Prioritization

Let's face it - everyday, the IT professional is bombarded with numerous demands on their time. First they have what are supposedly their own jobs to complete; then, they have all of those deliverables demanded by the projects they have been assigned to. Last but not least, they are called upon to fix incidents or perform root cause analysis or to be involved in a Change. What is a guy or gal to do with all of these demands upon their time? That is exactly the question Pink Elephant is going to address in this PinkCast. The simple but profound premise is that unless a policy exists to assist an organization with this question, prioritization will always be relative to each individual and not shared. If this is the case, then the following statements are unfortunately true: There is no true ability to deliver against the SLA, ITIL Service Support integration is almost impossible, Forget trying to automate escalation and notification in your tools