Incident or Not?

March 29th, 2014 | Posted by Don Boylan in Incident Management
Q:

We are trying to figure out whether the following would be categorised as an Incident as per ITIL standards

A service was incorrectly coded at Application Development and Not noticed by anyone including QA.
The service went live and the problem was noticed only when a client reported the issue: ( This is a rarely used service)
Is this an incident, as the service was never available to be used correctly and as such was never a part of normal IT services.

A:

I would say yes. The client expected functionality. The functionality was not present. The delivery of the service did not meet reasonable expectations.

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