Building Multi-Tier Technical Support Strategies

Turn multi-tier technical support from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.

📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

Most outages involving multi-tier technical support are triggered by a change somebody considered routine. Technical debt in the practice within technology and systems delivery is borrowed against future delivery capacity, at compound interest. The professional literature on this strand of technology and systems delivery converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. Discussion is anchored to worked examples of multi-tier technical support rather than to abstract argument. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what the technology and systems delivery capability has actually achieved. Progress on the practice within technology and systems delivery is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on multi-tier technical support are used deliberately. It treats this part of technology and systems delivery as an operating discipline and equips participants to run it as one. It ends with a prioritised list of changes to the technology and systems delivery capability that the participant is prepared to defend internally.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Adapt recognised practice on multi-tier technical support to local constraints without hollowing it out.

02

Secure the software supply chain and dependencies within multi-tier technical support.

03

Assign clear ownership for each element of multi-tier technical support across the functions involved.

04

Plan capacity for multi-tier technical support against measured growth rather than optimism.

05

Apply data protection and retention requirements within multi-tier technical support.

06

Present the case for investment in multi-tier technical support in terms that a finance function will accept.

07

Build incident response for multi-tier technical support with defined severity and escalation.

Who Should Attend

01

Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by multi-tier technical support.

02

Quality and test engineers verifying multi-tier technical support.

03

Public sector officials applying multi-tier technical support within a regulated framework.

04

Vendor managers overseeing suppliers involved in multi-tier technical support.

05

Infrastructure and platform engineers operating multi-tier technical support.

06

Database administrators managing data within multi-tier technical support.

Course Modules

01

Multi-tier technical support: backup, recovery and continuity

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Making releases of multi-tier technical support routine instead of risky

  • Review logging on multi-tier technical support for coverage and retention.
  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in multi-tier technical support.
  • Map the handovers in multi-tier technical support between functions and secure them.
  • Arrange the handover of multi-tier technical support so capability survives staff changes.

Session 2Comparing multi-tier technical support with recognised practice

  • Confirm the support model and escalation path for multi-tier technical support.
  • Document the runbook for multi-tier technical support to the level a new engineer could use.
  • Apply change control to multi-tier technical support including emergency changes.
  • Rank the weaknesses in multi-tier technical support by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
02

Multi-tier technical support: monitoring, alerting and observability

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Running an incident on multi-tier technical support calmly

  • Record the technical debt in multi-tier technical support and schedule repayment.
  • Build the internal briefing that explains multi-tier technical support to those affected.
  • Estimate the resource multi-tier technical support requires to run as designed.
  • Draft the minimum viable technical standard for multi-tier technical support.

Session 2Least privilege in multi-tier technical support without blocking the work

  • Run a load test on multi-tier technical support at expected peak plus a margin.
  • Set the review interval for multi-tier technical support and who attends.
  • Compare the cost of multi-tier technical support with the cost of its absence.
  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about multi-tier technical support.
03

Multi-tier technical support: security, identity and least privilege

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Reading the current state of multi-tier technical support honestly

  • Identify the single points of failure in multi-tier technical support.
  • State the availability and recovery objectives for multi-tier technical support as numbers.
  • Configure alerting on multi-tier technical support that reflects what users experience.
  • Confirm data retention and deletion rules applied within multi-tier technical support.

Session 2Dependencies and supply chain risk in multi-tier technical support

  • Set escalation thresholds for multi-tier technical support that work out of hours.
  • Assess the exit route from any cloud or vendor dependency in multi-tier technical support.
  • Set delivery and reliability indicators for multi-tier technical support the team trusts.
  • Verify six months later that changes to multi-tier technical support have held.
04

Multi-tier technical support: build, pipeline and release discipline

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Proving the backup of multi-tier technical support by restoring it

  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for multi-tier technical support.
  • Test the failover for multi-tier technical support rather than assuming it works.
  • Review whether multi-tier technical support is aligned with the objectives of the technical platform.
  • Confirm that those complying with multi-tier technical support understand why it exists.

Session 2What to measure in multi-tier technical support and what to ignore

  • Review access rights on multi-tier technical support and remove what is no longer needed.
  • Confirm every release of multi-tier technical support can be rolled back within a defined time.
  • Establish what evidence demonstrates multi-tier technical support is under control.
  • Inventory third-party dependencies inside multi-tier technical support and their update status.

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  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
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  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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