IT Service Management

The Service Desk Lead v1.0

Leads a team of eight agents at a machine builder with 1,400 employees across three plants in Germany and one in Poland. Most tickets still arrive by email, and the same printer and VPN questions come in every Monday. Wants incidents and requests told apart, SLAs that escalate on their own, a portal with a catalog people actually use, answers that deflect the Monday tickets, and reports the IT director reads without a spreadsheet.

The MSP Owner v1.0

Owns a managed service provider with twenty-two technicians and sixty client companies, from dental practices to a logistics firm with nine sites. Every client has its own contract, its own SLA and its own devices, and every hour has to end up on an invoice. Wants one desk with client data kept apart, the RMM and remote support tool connected, time and contracts billed, a portal per client, and a price per technician that still works when the team doubles.

The Change & Configuration Manager v1.0

Change and configuration manager at a regional bank that answers to BaFin and, since January 2025, to DORA. Chairs the weekly change advisory board and has to show an auditor who approved which change, which services it touched and which incident it caused. Wants change types with real approvals, risk read from a CMDB that knows how systems depend on each other, problem records tied to incidents, and an audit trail that can be exported.

The Municipal IT Lead v1.0

Runs IT for a district administration with 900 staff, schools included, on servers in the municipal data centre. Follows BSI IT-Grundschutz and buys through public tenders, and the data protection officer will not sign off staff and device data on a US cloud. Wants an on-premise or open-source edition that is documented and maintained, a portal for teachers and clerks, assets linked to tickets, and a contract and price list the procurement office can put into a tender.

The Solo IT Admin v1.0

The whole IT department of a 160-person engineering firm, with a part-time trainee on Thursdays. Requests come in by email, Teams and in the corridor, and the asset list is a spreadsheet nobody trusts. Has no time for an ITIL project: wants email and Teams turned into tickets, a simple portal with answers to the common questions, laptops and licences found automatically, a setup that takes days rather than months, and a price they can read off the website.

The Skeptic v1.0

Has seen "ITIL-certified" on a tool whose change management is a status field, a "CMDB" that is a list of devices without a single relationship, and an "AI agent" that searches the knowledge base. Reads that a product runs on premise and asks whether that edition gets the same features, which of the asset packs are extra, where the tickets and attachments are stored — and how ten years of ticket history would leave.