Jumpstart Your Major Incident Management
This accelerator provides a demonstration of the possibilities and capabilities of Major Incident Management.
Accelerator Overview
Jumpstart Your Major Incident Management (MIM) provides ServiceNow administrators and technical teams with a ready-to-use temporary instance to explore base-system Major Incident workflows. It showcases core capabilities such as incident prioritization, cross-team collaboration, communication templates, and post-incident reviews. This helps teams envision how to accelerate response times and reduce business impact during critical outages. Additionally, this offering provides key resources and leading practices to get started with Major Incident Management.
Prerequisites
- Customers should use the Service Operations Workspace to manage their major incidents.
- Insight into the customer's existing incident-management processes and supporting tools enables a more effective engagement.
What You Get
- Session Preparation
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- Provision of a temporary instance (if applicable)
- Activation and configuration of related plug-ins
- Customer Coaching Session #1 (up to 1.5 hours)
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Includes the following:
- Overview of MIM
- Guided walk-through of the MIM process scope, including:
- Major Incident identification
- Incident communication plans
- Playbooks
- On-call scheduling
- Post-incident review
- Key metrics and reporting
- Steps to successfully adopt MIM
- Temporary instance provided with 30 days access
- Customer Coaching Session #2 (Optional upon Customer request-up to 60 min)
- Opportunity for QA related to MIM
Requested Customer Resources
| Customer Resource | Responsibilities | Required | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform Owner | Responsible for the overall accountability of the ServiceNow platform. Provides leadership and oversight to the System Administrators, ensures team alignment to business strategy and the ServiceNow roadmap, and is actively involved in the overarching governance of the platform. | ✓ | |
| System Administrator |
Responsible for maintaining the stability and usability of the ServiceNow platform by performing application maintenance, managing support for Cases related to ServiceNow applications, and contributing to ServiceNow software releases by delivering configuration tasks and features. |
✓ | |
| Process Owner |
A senior leader within each business unit for each major process or service (for example, incident, change, employee onboarding) and is accountable for ensuring that the process is fit-for-purpose. |
✓ | |
| Trusted Service Partner |
Attends ServiceNow Impact Accelerator coaching session(s) to understand leading practices and potentially support customers going forward. |
✓ |