Former Kifinti Solutions Consultant releases a19 Best Practices Android Mobile App

The a19 Best Practices Android Mobile Application offers Ivanti Service Manager and Ivanti Asset Manager Best Practices, Latest Solutions, Tips & Tricks

TORONTO – Oct. 13, 2020 – PRLog — a19 Consulting provides Ivanti Best Practices and Ivanti Professional Services, worldwide, in almost every sector, since 1996.

“The a19 Best Practice Systems Android Mobile Application offers best practices, latest solutions, tips & tricks for your Ivanti Service Manager Implementation” says Gregor Anton, a former Kifinti Solutions Consultant, and unique and distinctive authority in the Enterprise Service Management space with his consulting and development experience and extensive insight to best practices going back to 1996 with the HEAT and now Ivanti Service Manager (ISM) and Ivanti Asset Manager (IAM) products.

Providing HEAT ITSM Best Practices and now Ivanti Best Practices, with his tried, tested, and true implementations, and upgrades, Gregor now focuses on his company, a19 Consulting, and his a19 Ivanti Best Practices System.

Gregor has been developing, streamlining, and implementing best practices and latest solutions for fortune 500 companies and Frontrange Business Partners (Change Control, Avante Solutions, Kifinti Solutions) and Ivanti Business Partners (Kifinti Solutions, DDS IT), worldwide.  More about Gregor at https://youtu.be/kR9UgRYyc1c

The ITxM Space (ITSM, IT Service Management, ITAM, IT Asset Management) has never been more exciting, as is the transformation to ESM (Enterprise Service Management).

The Android Mobile application can be downloaded at http://apk.a19consulting.com or in the Google Play Store

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Best Practices – UAT

When it comes to Ivanti Best Practices there is no better source than that of a seasoned Consultant with the voice of experience of years of Ivanti Professional Services, Ivanti Implementations, Upgrades, with Ivanti Service Manager (powered by HEAT IT Service Management) and Ivanti Asset Manager.

One of the most crucial steps in System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is User Acceptance Testing (UAT), a type of system and business objective validation, performed by the end users, and business objective sign off by the project owner; not to be confused with System Testing which is performed by the Ivanti Developer and/or ISM Administrator

Many Ivanti Service Manager implementations fall short when it comes to proper UAT Testing, be it due to a lack of resources, time, or budget, but more often than not due to a shortcoming of proper UAT Action Plan, UAT Test Cases and Scripts and a lack of Best Practices, Strategy, Coordination, and Planning.

Today we shall focus on Ivanti Best Practices for UAT.

UAT Best Practices

• Daily Stand-Up Calls coordinated by the decision maker and UAT Test Lead with the UAT Test Team
  • Review of UAT Decision Tree
  • Review Test Results, questions, unexpected behaviour, workarounds, tester comments
  • Review Reference Data to-do list for PROD
  • Identify key areas for training (bullet points) 
  • Test Case Maintenance – identify new test cases or changes needed to existing test cases
  • Daily Email Summary to the ISM Consultant, bullet points, of areas that need to be addressed, identifying “show-stoppers” and “must-haves”, “questions”
    
• Scribe – Appoint a person to take meeting notes, and keep track of any “nice-to-haves”, “parking lot items”, “knowledge articles” needed.  Typically this function falls on the Knowledge Manager/Trainer.
  
• Weekly Calls with ISM Consultant to review the progress, test results, and discuss UAT remediation scope.
  
• Focus on Job Functions, not features, not enhancements, not future phases. 
  
• No Bug Hunts – The point of UAT is not to find bugs.  It’s to ensure day-to-day functions can be carried out and the steps for those job functions are documented for training purposes.   Any unexpected behaviour can be recorded in tester comments.
  
• Keep it Simple – Focus on test cases at hand.  If there are any issues, make sure to record the reference #, 1 or 2 screenshots, bullet point tester comments, no need for long novels with pages of screenshots.  

For more information and to reserve your a19 Consulting – Ivanti Best Practice System Implementation be sure to contact us!

What is UAT Testing?

• The purpose of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is to test use cases, that is specific day-to-day operations in the life of an end-user and their required tasks to perform their job function
  
• UAT Testing differs from System Testing in that System Testing is focused on software functionality.   UAT Testing is focused on job function, that is day to day operations can be performed.  Therefor access to Ivanti Service Manager (powered by HEAT) is not needed to build UAT Test cases, in fact it is discouraged to use HEAT as your focus should be on building use cases about day to day operations, operating procedures, such as Logging an Incident, searching for customers, assigning 2nd level support, and so on.

• Regression testing refers to testing of existing functionality to ensure that recent changes do not adversely affect existing features.  For example, when implementing Asset Management, the existing Incident functionality is tested to test use cases such as creating an incident, creating a task, updating incidents, closing tasks, incidents, etc. In addition to UAT Test Scripts, you will want to do a comparison of existing workspaces, existing functionality, and existing features, to ensure existing functionality has not been impacted.

If you’re looking for sample UAT Test Scripts, be sure to contact us!

PS: Be sure to also read my article at IT Chronicles: “Everything you know about UAT is WRONG!“