Project Management - Transition Planning and Support
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ITIL Project Management - ITIL Transition Planning and Support
ITIL Project Management (Transition Planning & Support) aims to plan and coordinate the resources to deploy a major Release within the predicted cost, time and quality estimates.
Part of: Service Transition
Process Owner: Project Manager
Process: ITIL Transition Planning and Support
Transition Planning and Support is a new process in ITIL V3; ITIL V2 covered some aspects of this process within Release Management but ITIL V3 provides considerably enhanced guidance.
Transition Planning and Support in ITIL V3 is actually about managing service transition projects, so at IT Process Maps we decided to make this clear by slightly changing its name to Project Management (Transition Planning and Support). ITIL V3 does not provide a detailed explanation of all aspects of ITIL Project Management but highlights the most important activities and assists in identifying interfaces with the other Service Management processes.
However, having a basic ITIL Project Management process defined will provide a good starting point for introducing best-practice Project Management frameworks like PRINCE2 or PMBOK (as recommended in the ITIL V3 books).
The following sub-processes are part of ITIL Project Management (Transition Planning and Support):
Sub-Processes
- Project Initiation
- Process Objective: To define stakeholders, responsibilities and resources available to the project, as well as documenting risks, constraints and assumptions affecting the project.
- Project Planning
- Process Objective: To create the initial Service Transition Plan, defining deliverables, milestones, activities and resources for a project.
- Project Control
- Process Objective: To monitor project progress and resource consumption, to expedite progress when required and to initiate corrective action if required.
- Project Reporting and Communication
- Process Objective: To provide an overall summary of all planned or ongoing Service Transition projects as an information for customers and other Service Management processes.
ITIL Terms: Project Management (Transition Planning and Support)
- Data for Service Transition Plan Update
- Actual data related to project progress and resource consumption. This information is sent from Release Management to Project Management as input for Project Control and Reporting.
- Project Charter
- The Project Charter is a statement of the scope, objectives and participants in a project. It outlines the project objectives, identifies the main stakeholders, defines the authority of the project manager and the resources at his disposal, and lists any constraints and assumptions affecting the project.
- Project History Log
- A document recording important events during the course of the project, e.g. decisions, escalations and changes to the project scope.
- Project Plan (Service Transition Plan)
- A Project Plan (in ITIL also referred to as Service Transition Plan) is a formal, approved document showing the major deliverables, milestones, activities and resources for a Service Transition project, used to guide both project execution and project control.
- Project Portfolio Status Report
- The Project Portfolio Status Report is an overall summary of all planned or ongoing Service Transition projects for deploying major Releases, listing key project data like milestones and current project status.
Additional Information
ITIL KPIs
ITIL Roles
- Project Manager - Process Owner
- The Project Manager is responsible for planning and coordinating the resources to deploy a major Release within the predicted cost, time and quality estimates.
Downloads
Overview ITIL Project Management
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Templates & Checklists - General Project Management
For your routine tasks in ITIL Project Management we provide a comprehensive collection of helpful project management templates, checklists and tips under the heading of General Project Management.
