Establish SLA goals and a working hours calendar

Constrain SLA goals based on your working calendar

Automate the lifecycle of a request

Use automation to handle recurring tasks

Establish a schema that can be used throughout Jira Service Management

Create a schema to enrich issues across Jira Service Management

Embed an Assets field in a customer-facing request form

Expedite resolutions by linking Assets data

Allow for approvals in a workflow

Demonstrate an example of how approvals work

Establish a knowledge base with organized articles

Deflect requests with knowledge base articles

Create a complex portal form

Understand how and when to use ProForma

Create contextual queues for agents

Contextualize and configure queues based on the job to be done

Add, remove, or modify a request type in the portal

Learn how to create and organize request types to serve customers

Configure alert creation

Create and customize alerts from integrated alert sources

Configure alert notification

Ensure alerts are transmitted and escalated

Set up an on-call schedule for a team

Create a custom on-call schedule

Respond to and resolve a major incident

Respond to an outage that impacts customers

Respond to and resolve an incident

Respond to an outage that is not customer-facing

Communicate outages, maintenance, and other key information with stakeholders

Create a communication plan using Jira Service Management and Statuspage

Process a change record

Enrich a change request and champion approval

Manage change risk

Use the change calendar and automation to identify conflicts

Cross-link tickets and/or articles to add context to an issue

Enrich a Jira issue with contextual links

Collaborate with non-agents in Jira Service Management projects

Learn how to work with non-agents using Jira Service Management

Report on issue data over time

Measure time-based and success-based metrics

Configure alert notification

Outcome	Your team will understand how to configure policies that ensure vetted alerts are transmitted and escalated.
Processes	Create or identify an existing team Add any new users Configure Auto close policies Configure Auto restart policies Decision: alert recipients or teams, preference to teams Configure team routing rule Configure escalation rules Review team member profiles Notification rules Configure notification policies Delay Suppress
Practice area(s)	Incident management
Product(s) in scope	Jira Service Management (Premium or Enterprise), Opsgenie, and Statuspage
Role(s)	Technical SME, Incident Manager, Problem Manager, Change Manager, Technical Lead, and Administrator

Step	Process	Notes/Resources
1	Create an alert.
2	Configure the Auto close policy.	Create and manage global alert policies
3	Configure the Auto restart policy.	Create and manage global alert policies
4	Configure alert to a team (routing rule).	A deep dive on routing rules
5	Configure the escalation rules.	How do escalations work in Opsgenie?
6	Create a team member delay notification policy.	Create and manage global alert policies

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