MOF Team Model and mapping ITIL flows to your IT Org Chart

In a recent post on Real World ITIL, Scott discusses mapping ITIL flows to an IT org chart.  The Microsoft Operations Framework Team Model approach is very useful for such an exercise. 

Why is the team model important?  Here is a blurb from the document…

“People-related issues make up the major cost of IT operations. A major challenge faced by IT operations is how to implement best practices to ensure that the organization obtains the maximum return on investment from its staff and gets the job done, while at the same time providing job satisfaction and career development pathways.
A high degree of staff turnover in IT operations could represent a loss of skills and training to the organization in key business areas. How does an organization address issues relating to teamwork, motivation, performance, and rewards without also considering training, job satisfaction, responsibility, and accountability?
The politics and culture of an organization may often affect the levels of discipline, creativity, exercising of authority, decision making, and professionalism of its IT staff. How can an organization ensure that its IT operations team understands and then focuses on the right issues? How can the concept of a service culture be instilled into the core behavior of an operations team?”

The team model breaks down roles, responsibilities, and job functions specific to IT Operations.  The five primary guidelines for the team model are:

• Providing great customer service
• Understanding the business priorities and enabling IT add business value
• Building strong, synergistic virtual teams
• Utilizing IT automation and knowledge management tools
• Attracting, developing, and retaining skilled and talented IT operations staff

Take a look at the team model and see how it can help you map roles and job functions to your MOF / ITIL processes.