What do you do if your IT operations management fails to respond effectively to failure?

In my POV, Engaging in root cause analysis, fostering communication across teams, and continuously refining processes are key steps to ensure a robust and responsive IT environment.

It is important to define a common understanding of what constitutes a failure. A cohesive response cannot be formulated If everyone is not aligned with importance and urgency. Also consider that there are various stakeholders, each with their interests and expected timelines. What is an acceptable response for one stakeholder may not be for the next

When IT operations management falters, consider these steps: 1. Root Cause Analysis: Investigate the failure’s origin. 2. Incident Response Plan: Implement a predefined plan to address incidents swiftly. 3. Communication: Notify stakeholders transparently. 4. Continuous Improvement: Learn from failures to enhance future responses. 5.Automate: Use tools for proactive monitoring and automated remediation.

Analyzing the failure and understanding a root cause is the first step to respond, make a positive change and build the actions based upon it.

Get quick insights in to impact and determine urgency. If urgent, engage right folks and mitigate the failure ASAP same time communicating with management and customer. Post resolution, conduct RCA to complete PDCA cycle and avoid such scenario in future.

Revise you Business continuity management protocols, re access how the as is plan performed during the last crisis. Pin point the phase where is fails and mitigate it in the new plan. But thats not it, you need to simulate the crisis again and add follow up incidents and see how the new plan will perform. Same as doing regression performance test add most common assumptions and develop a BCM plan that passes the simulation and keep developing it as you go.

Review and update response protocols. If the current disaster recovery plan proved ineffective, revise it to include clearer action items and response times.

Una buena control de los sistemas criticos puede evitarte ademas de economicos, reputacionales. Si tienes un buen plan de contingencia, revisando todo los sistemas, detallando los criticos y siempre haciendote la misma pregunta, ?cuanto tiempo puedo estar parado sin este servicio?

Revising protocols is perhaps one of the most important steps post major incident because after a MI you can assess the solidity of your protocols and improve where needed. the Post major incident report is invaluable in improving the procedures/protocols

I will see if there are any gaps in existing protocols that might have contributed to the slow response. If so, I'll recommend updating them to ensure a faster and more efficient response in the future.

Involve the IT team in a debriefing session to discuss what went wrong and solicit input on improving response actions. Obtaining ground level team will enable incorporating practical feedback on plan.

Ante una situacion de crisis, es importante mantener la calma y dar informacion. Recuerda que 4 ojos ven mas que 2. Detallar las funciones de cada y tener un plan de actuacion es importante.

If the situation is beyond my skills or requires a broader effort, I'll immediately escalate the issue to the appropriate IT operations team members. Clear communication is key here, so I'll outline the problem, the impact, and any initial findings I have.

Be clear on what’s expected from who. Engage yourself and others. Learn the process and if not good, fix it. Don’t hide from actions. Everyone knows how to point fingers. Take ownership instead of pointing fingers. Own your work. Take full responsibility to safe business even if it is not your job. Everyone’s job is to protect the companies best interest.

A good plan is amazing to have, but action beats planning every time. The Key point in implementing solutions is to have: 1) a deadline 2) an assignee owner/team responsible for the implementation plan.

Put the revised protocols into practice. For example, if the issue was a slow response, implement automated alerts for faster reaction times.

Bajo mi punto de vista este punto puede ir antes, si la perdida de servicio se solventa con una recuperacion de copias, es importante primero recuperar. Lo normal es que cuanto mas tiempo este sin servicio mayor sera la perdida economica, reputacional, etc.

I can work collaboratively with the IT operations team to brainstorm and implement solutions to get things back online. This might involve patching software, restarting systems, or implementing failover procedures.

Keep all stakeholders updated with progress and unexpected problems. Do this by allocating a non-essential staff member to liaison duties to ensure the core team is not interrupted by everyone asking for updates.

Keep a close watch on the implemented changes to ensure they are effective. Use performance metrics to monitor the new recovery process’s success.

Es importante supervisar y vigilar. Chuquear sistemas ocmo esta repercutiendo lo que estoy haciendo. En ningun momento perder de vista lo que estamos haciendo.

I would keep a close eye on the recovery process, monitoring system performance and user reports to ensure everything is functioning as intended.

Once the situation is under control, I'll work with the IT operations team to conduct a post-mortem analysis. This will help us understand what went wrong, identify areas for improvement, and prevent similar issues from happening again.

Turn the failure into a learning opportunity by analyzing the root causes and adapting processes to prevent future occurrences. For example, if the failure was due to outdated hardware, plan a hardware upgrade strategy.

In my experience - when IT operations management falls short, I focus on understanding the root cause, fostering open communication, and learning from past failures to drive continuous improvement. With resilience and collaboration, we can turn setbacks into opportunities for growth.

It is a painful way of learning but a very effective one, because you can see directly where the workflows are sub optimal and what went wrong. A failure is a lesson learned in disguise and while it is stressful while happening, it is often a meant to solidify the workflows, boost collaboration and prevent future (more impactful) issues across the service lifecycle. Learning to adapt and improve is perhaps the skill that an OM must possess.

Try to understand cause of failure what went wrong and why. After identifying immediately plan for actions on those causes and see how we can improve in that area and avoid future occurrence. As every mistake is new step towards learning. Take ownership and do necessary changes in the process and encourage team as this will play a vital role in their learning and development.

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