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How do you define response time?
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Rod Weir
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3/23/2011 9:50 PM

    Hi HelpMasters,

    We are currently in the process of creating new reports for the next release of HelpMaster.  The new reports will display details about reponse times / sla's / time periods etc. 

    In order to create the most useful reports, we are seeking some feedback on the topic of response times.

    How do you define response time?

    1. Is it the date / time when you acknowledge the job (using the dedicated "Acknowledge job" action button?
    2. Is it the first staff action after the initial log job action?
    3. Is it when a job enters a particular job status?
    4. When a job gets re-assigned - a popular one when all jobs are initially logged and assigned to a skillgroup, or other "pool" of jobs.
    5. ...or something else?

    Looking forward to your response and ideas for some great "Response time" reports.

    Rod

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    3/24/2011 3:43 AM
    I saw this post and couldn't help but respond... :-)

    I've found in the past that "response times" can be a very contentious issue. But my take on this is that it must be from the customer's perspective of how the question is being progressed, so I say the customer see's the "first response" as the first steps towards resolution (a suggestion, request for more information, etc) and not just confirmation that the call has been logged and has an associated reference.

    Too often auto-responders are used as the measure of whether first response SLA's have been met; but from a service perspective, the customer hasn't received anything yet.

    Any thoughts, anyone ? :-)
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    3/24/2011 4:03 AM
    I would agree with Russ. We have used Acknowledge in the past but it was with various success. The way we have the templates set up it can be easier to use another another action type to update the client (such as request for further information) but then you do not get the right date/time stamp as per acknowledge. You then end up either using the ack option and add the other detail to that action such as email templates etc or you end up doing both.
    For this reason we went away from using this.

    My vote also would be the first action be it a status change or notes update. The only thing I would exclude is the reassigning of a job. When I reassign I move the ownership but this does not mean that anything has happened or the customer has been updated.
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    3/24/2011 6:23 AM
    Hi Russ and Timo, thanks for your input. This is good feedback.

    Sounds like both of these preferred measures of response time can be pinpointed by reporting on the first time is placed into a specific job status.

    A best-practice that we suggest with HelpMaster (or any helpdesk system) is to use an "us and them" naming convention for job status. To use a tennis analogy, when the ball (job) is in the clients' court, the job status reflects something like "Client : Awaiting response". When they do respond, the job status changes to "Staff : Awaiting response" or similar.

    So what I'm getting from your feedback is that a good definition of response is when the client is actually contacted by someone at the helpdesk / service desk etc. In the example above, it would be the first time the job status is changed to a job status like "Client : Awaiting response" or similar.

    Perhaps a future HelpMaster improvement / feature could be to mark certain job statuses as being the trigger for a response?

    Another other ideas?
    Rod

    p.s. Russ - great to hear from you again.

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    3/24/2011 8:23 AM
    We picked up the "us and them" approach from this website a while ago and have been using it ever since. One of those simple but effective ideas.

    As to the question though. When we log the job is is set to "0. Open Issue" and so in other words nothing has happened on it yet. The next step could be one of two mainly.
    "AB: Work in Progress" - we have started to work on it
    "Client: Awaiting Customer Response" - we have requested more information or we could have provided the solution and just awaiting confirmation. in this was then it incorporates the WIP status and the ACR status in one.

    so a status change would be good to have as the trigger but it may not be any specific status listing.

    Hope this helps
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