SW-QMS-PRO-001
Service Delivery Procedure
Version
1.0
Owner
Quality Lead
Effective Date
[TBD]
Review Date
[TBD]
Service Delivery Procedure
1. Purpose
This procedure establishes a consistent approach to delivering services at Swedwise AB, ensuring that:
- Customer requirements are understood and met
- Services are delivered to agreed standards and timelines
- Service level agreements (SLAs) are monitored and maintained
- Service performance is measured and reported
- Consulting and SaaS services are delivered effectively
- Customer satisfaction is achieved
- Continuous improvement is embedded in service delivery
This procedure supports ISO 9001 requirements for operational planning, control of processes, and customer-focused service delivery.
2. Scope
This procedure applies to:
Service Types:
- SaaS Services: Swedwise Communications (OpenText Exstream + Notifications), hosted services
- Consulting Services: Software implementation, configuration, customization projects
- Support Services: Technical support, maintenance, helpdesk services
- Professional Services: Training, advisory, integration services
Service Lifecycle Phases:
- Service design and planning
- Customer onboarding
- Service provisioning and delivery
- Service level management
- Performance monitoring and reporting
- Service improvement
Locations: All Swedwise offices and remote service delivery
Out of Scope:
- Internal IT services (covered by separate IT operations procedures)
- Pre-sales activities (covered by sales procedures)
- Detailed technical implementation steps (covered by discipline-specific work instructions)
3. Definitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Service | Intangible deliverable provided to customers (SaaS platform, consulting, support). |
| Service Level Agreement (SLA) | Documented agreement between Swedwise and customer defining service targets, metrics, and responsibilities. |
| Service Level Objective (SLO) | Specific measurable target within an SLA (e.g., 99.9% uptime, 15-minute response time). |
| Service Level Indicator (SLI) | Actual measured performance against an SLO. |
| Onboarding | Process of integrating a new customer into service delivery, including setup, training, and go-live. |
| Provisioning | Process of preparing and configuring service infrastructure and resources for customer use. |
| Service Catalog | List of services offered by Swedwise with descriptions, features, and SLAs. |
| Customer Success Manager (CSM) | Swedwise role responsible for customer relationship, satisfaction, and service oversight. |
| Service Owner | Swedwise role accountable for end-to-end service delivery and performance (e.g., SaaS Service Owner). |
| Incident | Unplanned interruption or reduction in quality of service. |
| Service Request | Customer request for information, access, change, or standard service. |
| Change | Addition, modification, or removal of anything that could affect services (managed via SW-IMS-PRO-008). |
4. Service Delivery Principles
Customer Focus:
- Understand and meet customer requirements and expectations
- Proactive communication and transparency
- Build long-term partnerships, not just transactions
Quality and Consistency:
- Deliver services to documented standards
- Consistent experience across all customers
- Continuous improvement based on feedback and metrics
Risk-Based Approach:
- Identify and mitigate service delivery risks
- Plan for contingencies (backups, failover, escalation)
- Balance customer needs with operational capabilities
Collaboration:
- Cross-functional teams (Customer Success, IT, Delivery, Support)
- Clear roles and handoffs
- Knowledge sharing and learning organization culture
Measurement and Improvement:
- Monitor service performance against SLAs
- Regular reporting to customers and management
- Act on insights to improve service delivery
5. Roles and Responsibilities
| Role | Responsibilities |
|---|---|
| Quality Lead | - Maintain this procedure - Oversee service delivery quality and consistency - Monitor overall service performance metrics - Report service trends to management - Coordinate service improvement initiatives |
| Service Owner (e.g., SaaS Service Owner) | - Accountable for end-to-end service delivery and performance - Define service standards and SLAs - Monitor service health and SLA compliance - Coordinate service improvements and changes - Escalate service risks to management |
| Customer Success Manager (CSM) | - Primary customer contact for service matters - Understand customer needs and expectations - Coordinate onboarding and provisioning - Monitor customer satisfaction and service usage - Act as customer advocate internally - Escalate customer issues - Conduct service reviews with customers |
| Delivery Manager (Consulting) | - Manage consulting project delivery - Ensure project meets scope, timeline, budget - Coordinate project team and resources - Communicate project status to customer and management - Manage project risks and issues |
| Technical Delivery Team | - Provision and configure services - Implement solutions per customer requirements - Perform testing and validation - Document configurations and customizations - Transition services to operations/support |
| Support Team (L1/L2/L3) | - Respond to service requests and incidents - Troubleshoot and resolve issues - Escalate complex issues to specialists - Maintain service continuity - Log all interactions in support system |
| IT Operations (SaaS) | - Monitor SaaS platform health and performance - Manage infrastructure (servers, databases, networking) - Implement changes and patches - Perform backups and disaster recovery - Ensure SLA uptime targets |
| Resource Manager | - Allocate staff to customer projects and services - Balance workload across teams - Identify resource constraints and needs - Coordinate staff availability and scheduling |
| Customers | - Provide clear requirements and expectations - Participate in onboarding and testing - Provide timely feedback and issue reports - Fulfill customer responsibilities per SLA - Attend service reviews and meetings |
6. Service Delivery Process
6.1 Process Overview
Service Planning → Onboarding → Provisioning → Ongoing Delivery → Monitoring → Review → Improvement
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requirements customer environment operations performance review insights
6.2 Service Planning and Design
Objective: Define service offering, standards, and SLAs before customer engagement.
Activities:
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Define Service Catalog:
- Document services offered (SaaS, consulting, support)
- Describe features, capabilities, and limitations
- Define standard service packages and tiers
- Maintain service catalog (SW-QMS-DOC-001)
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Establish Service Level Agreements (SLAs):
- Define SLOs for each service (availability, response time, resolution time)
- Document customer and Swedwise responsibilities
- Specify reporting frequency and metrics
- Align with operational capabilities (realistic targets)
- Example SaaS SLAs:
- Availability: 99.9% uptime (monthly)
- Critical incident response: 15 minutes
- High incident response: 1 hour
- Planned maintenance window: Weekly Wednesday 22:00-02:00 CET
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Resource Planning:
- Determine staffing needs (CSMs, delivery, support, operations)
- Identify skill requirements and training needs
- Plan infrastructure capacity (SaaS platform sizing)
- Budget for service delivery costs
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Risk Assessment:
- Identify service delivery risks (using SW-IMS-PRO-002)
- Plan mitigations (backup systems, escalation paths, contingency plans)
- Document dependencies (third-party services: Azure, Entiros, OpenText)
Outputs:
- Service Catalog
- Standard SLA templates
- Resource allocation plan
- Service delivery risk register
Responsibility: Service Owner, Quality Lead, Management Team
Frequency: Annually, or when new services introduced
6.3 Customer Onboarding
Objective: Integrate new customers smoothly and set them up for success.
Trigger: Customer contract signed; sales handoff to delivery
Process Steps:
Step 1: Onboarding Kickoff (within 3 business days of contract signature)
Actions:
- Assign Customer Success Manager (CSM):
- CSM introduced to customer
- CSM becomes primary Swedwise contact
- Review Contract and Requirements:
- Confirm service scope, SLAs, timelines
- Identify customer-specific requirements or customizations
- Review any special terms or obligations
- Schedule Onboarding Kickoff Meeting:
- Participants: Customer stakeholders, CSM, Delivery Manager, Technical Lead
- Agenda:
- Introductions and roles
- Review onboarding process and timeline
- Confirm requirements and expectations
- Set communication plan and cadence
- Identify customer contacts and escalation paths
Outputs:
- Onboarding plan (timeline, milestones, responsibilities)
- Customer contact list
- Communication plan
Responsibility: CSM
Step 2: Service Provisioning (SaaS) or Project Initiation (Consulting)
For SaaS Services:
- Provision Customer Environment:
- Create customer tenant/instance in SaaS platform
- Configure customer-specific settings (branding, users, integrations)
- Set up monitoring and alerting for customer environment
- Configure backup and disaster recovery
- Prepare Customer Data:
- Coordinate data migration (if applicable)
- Validate data integrity and format
- Perform test data loads
- Configure Integrations:
- Set up connections to customer systems (if required)
- Test integrations end-to-end
- Document integration architecture
- User Setup:
- Create user accounts and roles
- Configure authentication (SSO if applicable)
- Set up access controls per customer requirements
Timeline: 2-4 weeks (standard SaaS onboarding)
For Consulting Services:
- Project Planning:
- Develop detailed project plan (scope, timeline, milestones, resources)
- Identify dependencies and risks
- Define acceptance criteria and deliverables
- Kick Off Project:
- Hold project kickoff meeting
- Set up project communication and collaboration tools
- Assign project team roles
- Initiate Delivery:
- Begin implementation work per project plan
- Hold regular status meetings (weekly or bi-weekly)
- Track progress and risks
Timeline: Varies by project scope (typically 4-26 weeks)
Responsibility: Technical Delivery Team, Delivery Manager
Step 3: Testing and Validation
Actions:
- Internal Testing:
- Validate service functionality against requirements
- Perform security testing (if applicable)
- Load/performance testing (for SaaS)
- Document test results
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT):
- Customer tests service with real or representative data
- Customer validates functionality meets requirements
- Identify and resolve issues or gaps
- Training:
- Provide training to customer users and administrators
- Deliver training materials and documentation
- Conduct hands-on sessions (live or recorded)
Timeline: 1-2 weeks
Responsibility: Technical Delivery Team, CSM
Step 4: Go-Live and Transition
Actions:
- Go-Live Readiness Check:
- Confirm all testing complete and issues resolved
- Verify customer readiness (training complete, data migrated)
- Validate monitoring and support processes in place
- Obtain customer sign-off for go-live
- Go-Live Execution:
- Activate service for customer production use
- Monitor closely during initial hours/days
- Provide hypercare support (enhanced support during transition)
- Transition to Operations/Support:
- Hand off from delivery team to support team
- Transfer knowledge (configurations, customizations, customer specifics)
- Update support system with customer details and SLA
- Document "known issues" or special considerations
Outputs:
- Go-live sign-off
- Transition documentation (for support team)
- Customer environment configuration documentation
Responsibility: Delivery Manager, CSM, Support Team Lead
Step 5: Onboarding Review
Timing: Within 30 days of go-live
Actions:
- Conduct Onboarding Review Meeting:
- Participants: Customer, CSM, Delivery Manager
- Agenda:
- Review onboarding experience (what went well, what could improve)
- Confirm customer satisfaction with service
- Address any outstanding issues or questions
- Review SLA and reporting cadence
- Plan next steps (service review schedule, optimization opportunities)
- Capture Lessons Learned:
- Document feedback for continuous improvement
- Share insights with team
- Update onboarding process if needed
Outputs:
- Onboarding review meeting minutes
- Lessons learned document
- Action items (if any)
Responsibility: CSM
6.4 Ongoing Service Delivery
Objective: Deliver consistent, high-quality service day-to-day, meeting SLA commitments.
Day-to-Day Activities
For SaaS Services:
- Platform Monitoring:
- Continuous monitoring of system health (Azure Monitor, application logs)
- Automated alerts for issues (downtime, performance degradation, errors)
- Proactive identification and resolution of potential issues
- Incident Management:
- Respond to service incidents per SW-ISMS-PRO-001 (Incident Management)
- Triage and prioritize incidents by severity and SLA
- Communicate with affected customers (status updates, resolution ETA)
- Escalate per defined escalation matrix
- Service Request Handling:
- Process customer service requests (access changes, configuration updates)
- Respond per SLA (e.g., standard requests within 2 business days)
- Document requests and resolutions in support system
- Change Management:
- Plan and implement changes per SW-IMS-PRO-008 (Change Management)
- Communicate planned maintenance to customers (advance notice per SLA)
- Execute changes during change windows
- Verify changes successful; roll back if necessary
- Backup and Recovery:
- Perform regular backups per schedule (e.g., daily incremental, weekly full)
- Test backup restoration periodically (quarterly)
- Maintain disaster recovery capabilities
- Security Management:
- Apply security patches and updates
- Monitor for security events
- Conduct security assessments periodically
- Follow information security procedures (SW-ISMS-POL-001)
For Consulting Services:
- Project Execution:
- Deliver project tasks per project plan
- Hold regular status meetings with customer (weekly or bi-weekly)
- Track progress against milestones
- Manage project risks and issues
- Scope Management:
- Control scope changes (formal change requests)
- Assess impact of scope changes on timeline and budget
- Obtain customer approval for scope changes
- Quality Assurance:
- Review deliverables for quality before customer submission
- Conduct peer reviews or technical reviews
- Validate deliverables meet acceptance criteria
- Delivery Documentation:
- Maintain project documentation (design docs, configurations, test results)
- Deliver final documentation to customer at project close
For Support Services:
- Ticket Management:
- Log all customer contacts in support system
- Categorize and prioritize tickets per SLA
- Assign tickets to appropriate support tier (L1, L2, L3)
- Track ticket status and SLA compliance
- Issue Resolution:
- Troubleshoot and resolve customer issues
- Escalate to higher support tiers or vendors if needed
- Communicate resolution to customer
- Document resolution in knowledge base
- Customer Communication:
- Respond to customer inquiries per SLA
- Provide status updates for open tickets
- Proactive communication for known issues or outages
Responsibility: IT Operations (SaaS), Delivery Manager (Consulting), Support Team (Support Services), CSM (overall customer coordination)
6.5 Service Level Management
Objective: Monitor and ensure SLA compliance; report performance to customers and management.
SLA Monitoring
Actions:
- Track Service Level Indicators (SLIs):
- SaaS Availability: Uptime % (target: 99.9%)
- Incident Response Times: Time from incident report to initial response (by severity)
- Incident Resolution Times: Time from incident report to resolution (by severity)
- Change Success Rate: % of changes implemented without rollback
- Customer Satisfaction: Survey scores (target: ≥4.0/5.0)
- Example metrics:
- Critical incident response: <15 minutes
- High incident response: <1 hour
- Critical incident resolution: <4 hours
- High incident resolution: <24 hours
- Automated Monitoring:
- Use monitoring tools to collect data (Azure Monitor, support ticketing system)
- Generate SLA dashboards (real-time visibility)
- Alert if SLA at risk (e.g., approaching response time deadline)
- Manual Data Collection:
- Collect qualitative data (customer feedback, satisfaction surveys)
- Review records for completeness and accuracy
Responsibility: Service Owner, IT Operations (SaaS), Support Team (Support Services)
Frequency: Continuous (real-time monitoring), with monthly reporting
SLA Reporting
Actions:
- Prepare Monthly Service Reports:
- Report service performance against SLAs
- Include:
- SLA compliance % (per SLO)
- Incidents and service requests summary (count, severity, resolution times)
- Availability/uptime (for SaaS)
- Planned maintenance activities
- Trends and observations
- Upcoming changes or improvements
- Provide commentary on any SLA misses (root cause, corrective action)
- Distribute Reports:
- To Customers: Monthly service reports (email or customer portal)
- To Management: Quarterly service performance summary (in management review)
- Service Review Meetings:
- Hold periodic service review meetings with key customers (quarterly or as agreed)
- Discuss service performance, satisfaction, and improvement opportunities
- Address customer concerns or requests
- Plan future enhancements or expansions
Responsibility: CSM (prepares and distributes customer reports), Service Owner (prepares management reports)
Frequency:
- Customer reports: Monthly
- Management reports: Quarterly
- Customer service review meetings: Quarterly (or as contractually agreed)
SLA Non-Compliance Management
If SLA is missed:
- Identify Root Cause:
- Investigate why SLA was not met
- Use root cause analysis techniques (SW-IMS-PRO-005)
- Implement Corrective Action:
- Address root cause to prevent recurrence
- Document corrective action (CAR if significant)
- Communicate to Customer:
- Proactively notify customer of SLA miss
- Explain root cause and corrective action taken
- Apply service credits if contractually required
- Management Escalation:
- Escalate repeated SLA misses to Management Team
- Review whether SLA targets are realistic or service capabilities need improvement
Responsibility: Service Owner, CSM
6.6 Performance Monitoring
Objective: Continuously monitor service health and performance to detect issues proactively.
Monitoring Categories
For SaaS Services:
- Infrastructure Monitoring:
- Server/VM health (CPU, memory, disk)
- Network performance and connectivity
- Database performance (query times, locks, replication lag)
- Kubernetes cluster health (for containerized services)
- Application Monitoring:
- Application errors and exceptions
- API response times and throughput
- Job/batch processing success and duration
- Integration health (external system connectivity)
- Security Monitoring:
- Authentication failures and suspicious login attempts
- Unauthorized access attempts
- Security alerts from SIEM or threat detection tools
- User Experience Monitoring:
- End-user transaction times (if monitoring available)
- User session errors
- Customer-reported issues
For Consulting Services:
- Project Health Monitoring:
- Schedule adherence (milestones on track?)
- Budget tracking (actual vs. planned costs)
- Scope changes (frequency and impact)
- Risk and issue log status
- Resource utilization
- Customer Satisfaction:
- Regular check-ins with customer
- Feedback on deliverables and team performance
Tools:
- Azure Monitor (for Azure-hosted services)
- Application Insights or equivalent APM
- Support ticketing system (incident and request tracking)
- Project management tools (consulting project tracking)
Alerting:
- Configure alerts for critical metrics (e.g., downtime, high error rates, SLA breach risk)
- Define on-call rotation for after-hours alerts
- Escalation for unacknowledged or unresolved alerts
Responsibility: IT Operations (SaaS), Delivery Manager (Consulting), Service Owner
Frequency: Continuous (24/7 monitoring for SaaS critical services)
6.7 Service Reporting
Objective: Provide transparency on service delivery to customers and management.
Customer Reporting
Monthly Service Report (for SaaS and support services):
- SLA Performance: Compliance with uptime, response time, resolution time targets
- Incidents: Count, severity distribution, major incidents summary
- Service Requests: Count, types, resolution times
- Changes: Planned changes implemented, upcoming changes
- Availability: Uptime %, downtime incidents (if any)
- Trends: Month-over-month comparisons
- Action Items: Follow-ups from previous month, outstanding issues
Project Status Report (for consulting services):
- Progress: Milestones achieved, work completed
- Schedule: On track / ahead / behind; forecast completion date
- Budget: Actual vs. planned spend; forecast final cost
- Risks and Issues: Current open risks and issues; mitigation status
- Upcoming: Next milestones, planned activities
- Decisions Needed: Items requiring customer decision or approval
Delivery Method:
- Email (PDF attachment or link to web report)
- Customer portal (if available)
- Review in periodic customer meetings
Responsibility: CSM (prepares and delivers customer reports), Delivery Manager (project reports)
Frequency:
- SaaS/Support: Monthly
- Consulting Projects: Weekly or bi-weekly during active delivery
Management Reporting
Quarterly Service Performance Report (in Management Review, SW-IMS-PRO-004):
- Overall SLA Compliance: Across all customers and services
- Service Trends: Incident frequency, types, resolution times over time
- Customer Satisfaction: Survey results, NPS scores, feedback themes
- Service Delivery Metrics:
- Onboarding lead time (contract to go-live)
- Project delivery performance (on-time, on-budget %)
- Support ticket volume and resolution times
- Service Delivery Risks: Current risks and mitigations
- Service Improvement Initiatives: Ongoing and planned improvements
- Resource Utilization: Staff allocation, capacity constraints
Audience: Management Team, Quality Lead, Service Owners
Responsibility: Quality Lead (consolidates input from Service Owners, CSMs, Delivery Managers)
Frequency: Quarterly (as part of IMS Management Review)
6.8 Service Improvement
Objective: Continuously improve service delivery based on feedback, metrics, and lessons learned.
Improvement Sources
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Customer Feedback (SW-QMS-PRO-002 - Customer Feedback Procedure):
- Satisfaction surveys
- Complaints and issues
- Service review meeting feedback
- Informal feedback from CSMs
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Internal Feedback:
- Lessons learned from projects and incidents
- Staff suggestions (support, delivery, operations teams)
- Retrospectives after major changes or incidents
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Performance Data:
- SLA compliance trends
- Incident and problem trends
- Efficiency metrics (onboarding time, resolution time)
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Benchmarking and Best Practices:
- Industry standards (ITIL, ISO 20000)
- Competitor or peer comparisons
- Technology and process innovations
Improvement Process
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Identify Improvement Opportunity:
- Analyze feedback and data
- Identify pain points, inefficiencies, or gaps
- Prioritize based on impact and effort
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Plan Improvement:
- Define improvement goal (e.g., reduce onboarding time by 20%)
- Develop improvement plan (actions, responsibilities, timeline)
- Obtain approvals and resources
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Implement Improvement:
- Execute improvement plan
- Update procedures, tools, or training
- Communicate changes to staff and customers
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Measure Effectiveness:
- Track metrics post-improvement
- Assess whether improvement goal achieved
- Adjust if needed
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Standardize:
- Update procedures and documentation
- Train staff on new methods
- Share lessons learned with organization
Responsibility: Quality Lead (coordinates), Service Owners, CSMs, Delivery Managers
Frequency: Ongoing; formal review quarterly in Management Review
7. Service Delivery for SaaS Services (Specific Guidance)
7.1 SaaS Platform Operations
Multi-Tenant Considerations:
- Ensure customer data isolation (separate tenants/databases)
- Test changes in staging environment mirroring production
- Consider impact on all tenants when planning changes
- Monitor per-tenant resource usage and performance
Change Management:
- Follow SW-IMS-PRO-008 (Change Management Procedure)
- Planned changes during designated change windows (e.g., Wednesday 22:00-02:00 CET)
- Customer notification per SLA (5-10 business days for planned maintenance)
- Emergency changes: Immediate notification, followed by post-incident review
Capacity Management:
- Monitor infrastructure capacity (CPU, memory, storage, network)
- Plan for growth (customer onboarding, increased usage)
- Scale infrastructure proactively to avoid performance issues
- Review capacity quarterly; forecast 6-12 months ahead
Disaster Recovery:
- Maintain tested disaster recovery plan
- Perform DR tests annually (minimum)
- Document recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO)
- Align DR capabilities with SLA commitments
7.2 SaaS Customer Communication
Planned Maintenance Notification:
- Advance notice per SLA (e.g., 5 business days for standard maintenance)
- Include: Date/time, duration, expected impact, actions required by customer
- Channels: Email, service status page (if available)
Incident Communication:
- Immediate notification when incident affects customer(s)
- Regular updates during extended incidents (every 2 hours)
- Resolution notification with summary
- Follow up with incident report (root cause, corrective action)
Service Status Page (recommended):
- Real-time service status (operational, degraded, outage)
- Planned maintenance calendar
- Incident history and updates
7.3 SaaS SLA Example
Service Level Objectives:
| SLO | Target | Measurement |
|---|---|---|
| Service Availability | 99.9% monthly uptime | Excludes planned maintenance during change windows |
| Critical Incident Response | 15 minutes | Time from incident logged to initial response |
| High Incident Response | 1 hour | Time from incident logged to initial response |
| Critical Incident Resolution | 4 hours | Time from incident logged to service restored |
| High Incident Resolution | 24 hours | Time from incident logged to issue resolved |
| Standard Service Request | 2 business days | Time from request to completion |
Customer Responsibilities:
- Provide accurate contact information for notifications
- Report incidents and service requests promptly
- Participate in testing during onboarding and changes
- Comply with acceptable use policy
Swedwise Responsibilities:
- Maintain service availability per SLA
- Respond to incidents per SLA
- Provide advance notice of planned maintenance
- Deliver monthly service reports
8. Service Delivery for Consulting Services (Specific Guidance)
8.1 Consulting Project Lifecycle
Phases:
- Initiation: Contract signed, kickoff, requirements gathering
- Planning: Detailed project plan, resource allocation
- Execution: Delivery of project tasks, iterative customer feedback
- Testing: UAT, defect resolution
- Deployment: Go-live, hypercare support
- Closure: Final acceptance, lessons learned, transition to support
Key Success Factors:
- Clear scope definition and change control
- Regular customer communication and status reporting
- Skilled and available resources
- Risk and issue management
- Quality assurance before customer delivery
8.2 Consulting Delivery Standards
Documentation:
- Project plan and schedule
- Requirements documentation
- Design and architecture documents
- Configuration and customization records
- Test plans and results
- User manuals and training materials
- Handover documentation (to customer or support team)
Quality Gates:
- Requirements review and sign-off
- Design review and approval
- Code/configuration peer review
- Testing completion and acceptance
- Go-live readiness review
- Customer acceptance sign-off
Resource Management:
- Allocate consultants based on skills and availability
- Monitor utilization and workload
- Plan for knowledge transfer and handoffs
- Address skill gaps through training or external support
9. Inputs and Outputs
Inputs:
- Customer contracts and requirements
- Service catalog and SLA templates
- Resource availability and skills
- Monitoring data and performance metrics
- Customer feedback and complaints
- Change requests and incident reports
- Risk assessments
Outputs:
- Onboarding plans and documentation
- Provisioned services and customer environments
- Monthly service reports (to customers)
- Quarterly service performance reports (to management)
- SLA compliance records
- Service improvement plans
- Lessons learned documentation
10. Records
| Record | Retention Period | Location | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Service Catalog | Current + 3 years superseded | [TBD - Document repository] | Quality Lead |
| Customer SLAs | Duration of contract + 5 years | [TBD - Contract repository] | Legal/Customer Success |
| Onboarding Documentation | 5 years | [TBD - Document repository] | CSM |
| Monthly Service Reports | 3 years | [TBD - Document repository] | CSM |
| Service Review Meeting Minutes | 5 years | [TBD - Document repository] | CSM |
| SLA Performance Data | 5 years | [TBD - Monitoring system] | Service Owner |
| Project Documentation (Consulting) | 5 years after project close | [TBD - Project repository] | Delivery Manager |
| Lessons Learned | 5 years | [TBD - Knowledge base] | Quality Lead |
11. Related Documents
Policies:
- SW-QMS-POL-001: Quality Management Policy
- SW-IMS-POL-001: Integrated Management System Policy
- SW-ISMS-POL-001: Information Security Policy
Procedures:
- SW-IMS-PRO-001: Document Control Procedure
- SW-IMS-PRO-002: Risk Assessment Procedure
- SW-IMS-PRO-004: Management Review Procedure
- SW-IMS-PRO-005: Nonconformity and Corrective Action Procedure
- SW-IMS-PRO-008: Change Management Procedure
- SW-ISMS-PRO-001: Incident Management Procedure
- SW-QMS-PRO-002: Customer Feedback Procedure
Forms and Templates:
- [TBD - SW-QMS-FRM-001: Service Report Template]
- [TBD - SW-QMS-FRM-002: Onboarding Plan Template]
- [TBD - SW-QMS-FRM-003: Project Status Report Template]
- [TBD - SW-QMS-FRM-004: Service Review Meeting Template]
External:
- ISO 9001:2015 - Clause 8 (Operation)
- ITIL Service Delivery best practices
12. Continuous Improvement
This procedure is subject to continuous improvement based on:
- Service delivery metrics and SLA performance
- Customer feedback and satisfaction surveys
- Lessons learned from projects and incidents
- Internal audits and management reviews
- Industry best practices and standards
- Technology and process innovations
Improvement suggestions should be submitted to the Quality Lead.
Appendix A: Service Delivery Metrics Dashboard (Example)
Monthly Metrics:
| Metric | Target | Actual | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| SaaS Availability (%) | 99.9% | [TBD] | 🟢 |
| Critical Incident Response Time (min) | <15 | [TBD] | 🟢 |
| Critical Incident Resolution Time (hours) | <4 | [TBD] | 🟢 |
| Customer Satisfaction Score (1-5) | ≥4.0 | [TBD] | 🟢 |
| SLA Compliance Rate (%) | 100% | [TBD] | 🟢 |
| Onboarding Lead Time (weeks) | <4 | [TBD] | 🟢 |
| Project On-Time Delivery (%) | ≥85% | [TBD] | 🟢 |
Quarterly Trends:
- Incident count and severity trend (should decrease over time)
- Customer satisfaction trend (should maintain or improve)
- Service request volume trend
- SLA compliance trend (should maintain near 100%)
Appendix B: Customer Onboarding Checklist (SaaS)
Pre-Onboarding (before kickoff):
- Contract signed and received
- Customer Success Manager assigned
- Customer contacts identified (primary, technical, billing)
- Onboarding kickoff meeting scheduled
Onboarding Kickoff:
- Kickoff meeting held (requirements confirmed, timeline agreed)
- Onboarding plan created and shared
- Customer data and integration requirements documented
Provisioning:
- Customer tenant/environment created
- Customer branding and configuration applied
- User accounts and roles created
- Integrations configured (if applicable)
- Data migrated and validated (if applicable)
Testing:
- Internal testing completed and passed
- UAT scheduled with customer
- Customer UAT completed and passed
- Training delivered to customer users
Go-Live:
- Go-live readiness checklist complete
- Customer sign-off obtained
- Service activated for production use
- Support team transitioned and briefed
- Monitoring and alerting configured
Post-Go-Live:
- Hypercare support provided (first 7 days)
- Initial performance and usage reviewed
- Onboarding review meeting held (within 30 days)
- Lessons learned documented
Document Control
| Version | Date | Author | Changes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | [TBD] | [Author] | Initial release |
Approval
| Role | Name | Signature | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quality Lead | |||
| Management Team Representative |