Service Charter Template
IT Service Charter is a high-level document for any new or significantly modified services and its approach to developing a new/ modified service. Customer Service Charter document will consolidate all the necessary information on the purpose, requirements of the new/ modified service, scope, resources needed, roles and responsibilities, service acceptance criteria, KPI’s and metrics, constraints, etc.
Service Charter Template
The Service Charter Template is the document that will provide clear communication to the Service Design process area with all the necessary information for designing a new service.
Purpose of Service Charter
Service charter documents the necessary information required by the service design manager to design the service for transition and operations. A customer service charter is created during the service strategy phase which will provide clear direction to design the service for the benefit of service design process owners and managers.
The intended audience of the service charter template is the Service Design Manager, Service Design Process owners, and managers and Service Owners.
Objectives of Service Charter
- To provide a high-level description of a new or changed service to the Service Design stakeholders.
- To provide the service level requirements, service acceptance criteria, and goals of the customer.
Service Charter Development Life cycle
The development of a service charter can be defined through 4 stages as analysis, budgeting, approval, and publication.
Analysis: An understanding is developed by the service provider’s current IT operations. Assessments and analysis are made on current services, market spaces, risks associated, customer history, customer needs, customer feedback and recommendations, competitors, and competitors’ services. These assessments are made in form of interviews, questionnaires, direct observation, simulations, etc.
Budgeting: This stage involves predicting the funds necessary for services to deliver the agreed-upon IT service. Budgets are allocated for every new IT service proposed.
Approval: In this stage, the service portfolio manager makes the decision of approving services or rejecting, after careful evaluation of the analysis.
Publish: In this phase, chartered service is documented with high-level descriptions with respect to availability, capacity, performance expected, security, continuity, etc. and is standardized and published. Accordingly, the service charter is disseminated to all the relevant stakeholders in the service design process area (availability management, capacity management, information security management, IT service continuity management, etc.)
