IT Contracts & Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are unique in many aspects from other contracts. In order to ensure that you are receiving the level of service that you are expecting, it is important that you know how to put together a Service Level Agreement that ensures that you receive the service that you need and will be paying for. Furthermore, contracts are often littered with legal jargon that is difficult for non-lawyers to understand the implications of. To assist IT Professionals to better understand SLAs and ensure that they procure services to the standard that is required, AstroTech is offering a training programme on "IT Contracts & SLAs".
The topics include:
* IT contracts and SLAs
* Service level issues including:
o Performance
o Response time to failures
o Cost
* Performance measurement.
* Metric applicability and threshold calculation.
* Dealing with consortia and multiple suppliers.
* SLA monitoring tools.
* Statistics monitoring and reporting.
* Management reporting.
* Managing stakeholder expectations.
* Service level surveys.
* Escalation procedures.
* Benchmark checks.
* Setting realistic limits.
* Penalties and incentives.
* Contracts law:
o Terms and conditions
o Contract termination
o Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
o Breach and remedies
o Performance, non-performance & possibility of performance