RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER SERVICE MANAGEMENT PROCESSES
Transition planning and support has interfaces to programme and project teams, and customers, as well as to almost every other area of service management including:
• service portfolio management (SPM) and demand management, which should provide long-term information about future proposals and likely resource requirements;
• SPM and business relationship management, to help to manage appropriate two-way communication with customers and strategic planning activities;
• all areas of service design, though this will mainly be through their contribution to the service design package;
• supplier management, to ensure that appropriate contracts are in place;
• other service transition processes that are coordinated by transition planning and support;
• the service operation functions for coordinating pilots, handover and early-life support;
• technical management and application management, which will provide the personnel needed to carry out many aspects of service transition (e.g. to review changes or plan deployments).
The transition planning and support process makes heavy use of the service knowledge management system to provide access to the full range of information needed for short-, medium- and long-range planning.