BMC Remedy Change Management User Guide

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6 15 Conventions ..19 Syntax statements ..19 Chapter 1 Introducing BMC Remedy Change Management 21 About BMC Remedy Change Management ..21 BMC Remedy ITSM usability enhancements ..22 What's new in BMC Remedy Change Management ..26 Where to find features and fields that have moved ..26 Process flow and the stages of a Change request ..28 Change Request form views ..32 Best Practice view Change Request form ..32 Classic view Change Request form ..34 Calbro Services sample data ..35 user roles in the Change request lifecycle ..36 Additional Change Management user roles ..40 SMPM user roles ..43 Change request lifecycle ..47 user scenarios ..50 Calbro Services ..50 BMC Remedy Change Management user scenarios ..51 Chapter 2 Introducing Release Management 59 About Release Management ..59 Milestones in the release request lifecycle ..60 Release Management form views ..65 Best Practice view Release Request form.

7 66 Classic view Release Request form ..67 Best practices for managing release requests - Using this Guide ..68 user scenarios ..70 BMC Remedy Release Management use cases ..71 Chapter 3 Using the Change Management Console and the Change form75 About the IT Home Page ..75 Configuring the IT Home Page ..78 Contents 5 Navigating consoles, forms, and modules ..79 Using Global search ..82 user interface standards for field labels ..83 Icons used in the interface ..84 Change Management Console functional areas ..84 Change Management Console ..85 Tooltip data shown in consoles ..90 Company and Console View ..91 Change form functional areas ..92 Chapter 4 Using the Release Management Console and the Release form99 Release Management Console functional areas ..99 Release form functional areas ..104 Activity form functional areas ..109 Chapter 5 Change Manager role111 Working as a Change manager.

8 111 Using the Change Management Console as a Change manager ..113 Initiate stage - Creating Change requests ..113 Creating a Change request at the initiate stage Best Practice view ..114 Creating a Change request at the Initiate stage Classic View ..118 Adding Requester information ..124 Adding classification information ..126 Adding vendor information ..129 Recording activities for a Change request ..130 Creating emergency Change requests ..133 Atrium Impact Simulator analysis for Change requests ..134 Creating a Change request from Atrium Impact Simulator ..135 Modifying Change requests - Additional information you can enter ..138 Review and Authorize stage - Risk and impact analysis ..139 Risk assessment ..140 Specifying risk level at the Review and Authorize stage ..142 Computing risk levels ..142 Planning dependencies for Change requests ..143 Risk Recalculation ..144 Approvals - Approving Change requests.

9 144 Understanding the Change Management approval process ..146 Approving or rejecting requests ..147 Performing additional approval functions ..147 Viewing Change requests awaiting approval ..148 Viewing approvers for a Change request ..1486 BMC Remedy Change Management user Guide Plan and Schedule stage - Planning the Change request ..149 Planning the Change request at the Plan and Schedule stage ..150 Closed stage - Completing Change requests ..153 Closing a Change request ..155 Creating Change requests as rollbacks ..156 Working with reassignment requests ..156 Registering time segments ..157 Registering unique business events and operational categorizations ..158 Registering time segments for CIs - Creating a blackout schedule ..164 Understanding server time, time zones, and time segments ..169 Using Schedule Assist to search for available times ..170 Detecting CI collisions between Change requests.

10 176 Monitoring the progress of a Change request ..179 Monitoring associated tasks ..181 Viewing the audit log ..181 Viewing affected areas ..182 Working with costs ..183 Calculating the costs of a Change request ..185 Using auto-cost estimates ..185 Allocating costs to configuration items ..186 Performing additional functions with costs ..188 Using BMC Service Level Management with BMC Remedy ChangeManagement ..188 Viewing service targets in BMC Remedy Change Management ..189 Creating service targets for a Change request ..192 Using the Change Calendar ..194 Tooltip data shown in Change Calendar ..196 Filtering criteria in the Change Calendar ..197 Viewing Change requests ..200 Viewing business events ..201 Using Quick Links ..201 Setting time zone preferences for the Change Calendar ..202 Using the Change Management Dashboard ..203 Chapter 6 Change coordinator role207 Implement stage - Working as a Change coordinator.