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Reply to your emails! Customerservice, trouble tickets, and replying
to emails James Michael DuPont
Flossk.org Member
OTRS system for customer service
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Kosovo and the Global market
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Delivering value to the customer is the keyto success for Kosovo.
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Dedication and Responsiveness are someof the key values
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How to make money on theinternational market
1. Better Skills2. Lower Cost3. Faster Response4. Use Less Resources5. More Reliability
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miran/5792635506/
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Better Skills
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Lower Cost
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Faster
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Use Less Resources
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More Reliability
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Time = Money
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TIME=Money
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Time=Money 2
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Single Point of Failure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Single_Point_of_Failure.png
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Responsible
Responsible
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Responsible
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How to get started
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The Problem : Unanswered Emails
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The Solution: Trouble Ticketing
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One Good Solution :OTRS
Open Source Ticket Request Systemhttp://otrs.org/
A Web framework built in Perl that provides aHelp Desk system.
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Key Time measurements
1. First Response Time3. Update Time4. Solution Time
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Key Time :First Response
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Key Time : Updates (Patches)
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Key Time : Solution Delivered
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Good Responses
FAQ SPLIT IT UP
Response Pending
Escalation
Delagation Feedback
Respond to Moving Goals
Acknowledge Receipt
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Moving Goals
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RTFM / FAQ
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Chop Up Big Problems
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Response Pending is a Response
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Escalation
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Delegation
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Short Response
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SPAM
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Provide Feedback
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Moving Goals
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Internal Workflow
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Intern
* Organize Queues
* Dont wait for responses
* Use Priority
* Use Time Limits
* Time Tracking
* Pending Reminder
* Learning Organization
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Dont wait for response
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OTRS Attachments
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High Priority
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Time Limits
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Pending Reminder
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Low Priority
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Time Tracking
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Usage of a wiki
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Ticket ownership
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Have resources available
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Queues 2
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A Learning Organisation
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OTRS integration
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OTRS Interfaces
Web Interface for Customers
Web Interface for AgentsEmail Interface (auto responders)Ticket System
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Reply to your emails! Customerservice, trouble tickets, and replying
to emails James Michael DuPont
Flossk.org Member
OTRS system for customer service
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Kosovo and the Global market
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/2222523978/
Kosovo is entering into the globalmarket.
When dealing with internationalcustomers and companies, it isimportant to understand what
the customers expect andvalue. the CustomersViewpoint.
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Delivering value to the customer is the keyto success for Kosovo.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25802865@N08/3802050675
Delivering value to the customeris the key to success forKosovo.
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Dedication and Responsiveness are someof the key values
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1653876
Dedication and Responsiveness are some of the key values : havesomeone working on their problems, dedicated to the task and
not giving up, Delivering a Solution. Customers want dedicated staff to work on their problems. You need to make the Investment of time to learn the
important skills for the future. One person can be working on many projects, one ticket at a
time, this is possible because many times you have waitingperiods for feedback from customers. In this waiting periodyou can be working on other tickets.
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How to make money on the
international market1. Better Skills2. Lower Cost3. Faster Response4. Use Less Resources5. More Reliability
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miran/5792635506/
Provide services online for the
international market. Provide Solutions to customers
problems 1. Skills - Have better skills than
others.
2. Cost Have a lower cost 3. Faster Deliver the results faster. 4. Less Resources use less
resources in delivering service 5. Reliability - How reliable is that
solution. How often is it available,how often does it fail. Whatalternatives does a customer havewhen it fails.
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Better Skills
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Lower Cost
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Faster
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Use Less Resources
http://www.flickr.com/photos/antonfomkin/5243218781/
Time and Money. Space. These are limited resources. Need toidentify critical resources and plan their usage and allocation.
This includes the critical resource ofexpert knowledge.Control of these resources is critical.The auditing of all changes to
them. The locking of them to prevent acess to them at thesame time. The security of those resources. Ownership andResponsiblity are key, so that you have one person who ispersonally responsible at each time for a given resource.Make sure that each person knows what they are resposiblefor and for this to be clear and visible.
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More Reliability
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Time = Money
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miran/5792635506/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/servus/16117730/
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TIME=Money
Click to add text
http://www.flickr.com/photos/slapers/6089257678/
Things take time to develop
Plants take time to growEmployees take time to become
productiveTime in the day is limited
Customers don't want to wait forlong timesComputers use Power even
when not workingYou have to pay the rent every
month. If you miss your plane or train,
you will have a lot more costs.
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Time=Money 2
Click to add text
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeyskatie/5422122142/
You have to pay your
employeesFood only lasts for so long in
your bellyWaiting for people costs you
moneyMaking your customers waitcosts you customers
Global Financial Crisis is pushingdown costs and that meansalso response times.
Prices are rising, and Oil andGas are becoming more
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Single Point of Failure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Single_Point_of_Failure.png
Protect your company against single
points of Failure.
entire company depends on oneperson.
Transparency - can anyone know
what has been done. Only oneperson knows what is going on
Knowledge Management, how tomanage what your employees knowand make your expert knowledge
usable. Auditing - how to capture information
from the system from its log files anddatabases
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Responsible
Responsible
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkn/6065970748/
Wiktionary : Answerable for an act
performed or for its consequences;accountable; amenable, especiallylegally or politically.
Also implies Able to respond.We need to also measure the
Response time.
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Responsible
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The Problem : Unanswered Emails
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosedeniz/2307491776/
One of the biggest Problems that I have seen in
Kosovo is the number of Unanswered Emails. In the world of internet, your main communicationwith the outside world is email. Unansweredemails are a huge problem. Late answers are aBig problem.
Customers will measure you on your ability toanswer emails on time.
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The Solution: Trouble Ticketing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25031723@N06/6066855558/
Management of the Company needs to make the
decision to fight against late and unansweredemails. One of the best solutions for this is to use a
Ticketing system to measure and manage allemail communcation with the customer.
All new emails from a customer will be trackedand all problems of late responses will be
automatically escalated
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One Good Solution :OTRS
Open Source Ticket Request Systemhttp://otrs.org/
A Web framework built in Perl that provides aHelp Desk system.
As soon as you have more than
two people working on manysmall tasks you need a systemlike OTRS.
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Key Time measurements
1. First Response Time3. Update Time4. Solution Time
1. Time to first response to customer. -
thank you for your email.Automatically Generated.
2. First Response time : Time of firstresponse to customer. Some Humangenerated Meaningful result.
3. Update Time : Response to Updatesfrom customer- how can you dealwith changing requirements.
4. Solution Time : Time till customer isfully satisfied. How long until the full
solution is delivered. When the ticketis closed and accepted.
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Key Time :First Response
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We got your email, your business is important to us. Thank you forinterest. We will process your request in the next 24 hours. If
you need a faster response, please call our hotline
Responsiveness is the key to Customer ServiceProblems will happen, how fast can you respond to themIf you want to say NO, but dont want to answer, try let me think
about it
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Key Time : Updates (Patches)
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Key Time : Solution Delivered
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Good Responses
FAQ
SPLIT IT UP
Response Pending
Escalation
Delagation
Feedback Respond to Moving Goals
Acknowledge Receipt
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RTFM / FAQ
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42931449@N07/5397530925/
If a customers question is not clear, then you need toask for more information and provide somedocumentation for them to read. The ticket is then setto waiting for feedback and does not count against yourtime any more.
Documentation is important to reduce learning times.Problems that might occur at each step in the workflowneed to have answers prepared for them.Documentation of problems is important for
learning. The ticket system is a good first step for this. There is a FAQ plugin for OTRS. Many Companiesalso use Wikis for documentation. You can also attachdocuments directly into the OTRS ticket.
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Chop Up Big Problems
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulk/3167787796
If the customers request is too big to handle then
it should be broken up into smaller tickets andmanaged that way.
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Response Pending is a Response
http://www.flickr.com/photos/palmdiscipline/75511425/
If you cannot respond immediatly, inform the
customer of this and tell them when they canexpect a full response.
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Escalation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/h4ck3rm1k3/3624394759/sizes/m/in/photostream/
Escalation : sending the issue to ahigher instance. This can be donevia a queue. Tickets in OTRS areautomatically escalated when timelimits are reached.
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Delegation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/usembassynewdelhi/5736676296/
Delegation : assigning an issue to
another queue, or to another person.Be careful when assigning work to aspecific person,better to use aqueue.
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Short Response
http://www.flickr.com/photos/subspace-eddy/2382656103/sizes/z/in/photostream/
If you cannot answer the
question immediatelyThen give the customer a
response that you are workingon the problem and will report
back.That way, the customer knowsthe status, things that taketime, they take time. GoodCommunication does not haveto take up a lot of time.
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SPAM
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajc1/519906069/
Not answering is only one form of
response. This is good forspammers, scammers and otherthings. For customers and partners itis bad. But you can make a SpamQueue to put things that look like
spam in, just in case you need themyou will find them.
There are other reasons for notanswering, but the main point is, ifyou want to have good business
relationships, you need tocommunicate.
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Provide Feedback
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boltron/3132662146/sizes/z/in/photostream/
Important Steps in the processing of Problem.1. Give feedback on a regular basis
2. Identify problems and communicate them3. Provide working versions for review and comment4. If you cannot respond immediately, tell the customer and give them
regular status update until the job is done.5. If the job takes too long, understand that the customer might cancel
and find another solution
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Moving Goals
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68505590@N05/6285099444/
Having a limit does not mean it has
to be kept, but it needs to be
respected. Often we can assign time
limits to tickets based on experience
and description of the problem.
Sometimes these will need to be
adjusted.
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Internal Workflow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scallop_holden/2323763642/
The workflow are the steps inside the
company to deliver a Solution. Foreach of these steps we need to beable to train new people. Employeeswill also provide feedback, askquestions and expect answers. The
response time to our internalemployees will also affect thecompanies performance. newpeople need questions answered.
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Intern
* Organize Queues
* Dont wait for responses
* Use Priority
* Use Time Limits
* Time Tracking
* Pending Reminder
* Learning Organization
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Dont wait for response
http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_momento_i_sitio_apropiados/4196408399/sizes/z/in/photostream/
As soon as you send a question
or response back to someone,you have time to start workingon the next step. Dont wait forfeedback, but keep working.
This way you make your dayproductive. Keep track of allyour tasks in OTRS, but also inyour version control system.
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OTRS Attachments
http://www.flickr.com/photos/defenceimages/4987283722/
Attachments of documents are stored in otrs on the file system. They can be used for
putting in detailed specification and documenting test cases. Also source code zip files
could in theory be attached. Of course a source code repository is the better place forsource code. A wiki might be a better place for putting documentation, But you might
decide to use attachments as your means of communication of documents.
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High Priority
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rmgimages/4660619662/
Giving things a priority is difficult.
Customers will tend to give all
things the highest priority.
Changing the priority of a ticket
should be done carefully and onlyby experienced people.
We need to first understand the
impact of the ticket, for example : is
the customer blocked from beingable to work because of it, we
should treat it has high priority.
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Pending Reminder
Sometimes you will want to
schedule a ticket to be active in the
future. For example, you know that
the delivery of something you need
is planned for some date. The
pending reminder function of otrs is
good for that.
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Low Priority
http://www.flickr.com/photos/australianshepherds/6108930845/
For issues with no impact on
revenue or no legal implications and
on customer satisfaction, we can put
them as lower priority. It is
important to track low prio tickets
and issues as well, when we have
not much to do, we can work on
them. New people can also work on
low prio tickets.
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Time Tracking
See what time is spent on what
projectsSee what customers are using
what resourcesSee what people are working
how fastSee how often tickets areopened again and again.
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Usage of a wiki
Storing common knowledge in a
wiki.
When a ticket is closed it's data can
be used to update a wiki so that
others can find it.
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Ticket ownership
http://www.flickr.com/photos/keoni101/5132652314/
When someone is working on a
ticket it is lockedThe ticket is owned by a person.
You can see what tickets areopen and pick one to work on.
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Have resources available
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wmode/3427530637/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Make sure you work on customer requests in the same day, same hour,immediately.
Dont Plan your resources for 100% usage. Keep some buffer forunexpected issues. You can always do small tasks when you havetime free.
People who come to you for help should be helped immediately. Thisimproves the entire organization. Keep your work in small workpackages. For tasks done outside the ticket system, it is hard to trackthem, you can create a ticket retroactively to track your time.
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Queues of Work
http://www.flickr.com/photos/newporteye/6092579233/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Creating Queues is the key to
organizing work.Queues are best when they are
almost empty, when someoneis on each side of the queue
and processing ticketsimmediately. But when workingon some task you might find aproblem that you cannotaddress immediately, then youcan create a ticket to track thatwork and come back to it later.
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Queues 2
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maynard/2037670398/
Definition of a Queue : First In First Out : FIFO.
Tickets have a Priority, so they high prio tasks are handled first.Some Group of people Submitting tasks.Some Group of people Receiving and processing them..Key measurements : Average time in queue/Reoccuring Problems. Unlock timeout after no activity. Tuning : Escalation First, Update
and Solution Time.
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A Learning Organisation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinpoh/4404925960/
Expert to N00b ratio : the amount ofnoobs that an expert can support.This is increased when you havegood communication tools. Havingan expert supporting a group of
people who are interacting with thecustomer is a good model. Thisreduces the customer interactionwhich can be time intensive forexperts and frees them up to solve
problems.
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OTRS integration
Monitoring - nagios / icingaDeployment - Puppet / Debian Packages / releases
CRM - sugar crm / civicrm / openerpWiki - wiki pagesDocument management -
Twitter / FacebookProcessing logfiles -Staging and testing
Version control systems.Other Bug systems - other OTRS- Bugzilla, issue trackersetc.
Get satisfaction. Stackoverflow. Github.IRC networks. Pastebin. Blogposts.
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OTRS Interfaces
Web Interface for CustomersWeb Interface for AgentsEmail Interface (auto responders)
Ticket System