Title
Policy-based IT automation: the role of human judgment
Abstract
Policy-based automation is emerging as a viable approach to IT systems management, codifying high-level business goals into executable specifications for governing IT operations. Little is known, however, about how policies are actually made, used, and maintained in practice. Here, we report studies of policy use in IT service delivery. We found that although policies often make explicit statements, much is deliberately left implicit, with correct interpretation and execution depending critically on human judgment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1477973.1477986
CHIMIT
Keywords
Field
DocType
it systems management,it service delivery,policy-based automation,policy use,it operation,explicit statement,policy-based it automation,correct interpretation,high-level business goal,human judgment,executable specification,service delivery,ethnography,system management,systems management
Information technology operations,Information technology,Computer science,Knowledge management,Policy analysis,Human judgment,Automation,Systems management,Service delivery framework,Management science,Executable
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eser Kandogan169864.49
John Bailey236736.53
Paul P. Maglio3584.75
Eben Haber4444.34