Case Study

Service Level Objective (SLO) Platform

Windward helped Dave find an end-to-end solution for the full lifecycle of Service Reliability.
The situation

Poor adoption of self-service options. Lack of agreed-upon standards creates misunderstanding and misalignment across business and technology teams.

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How Windward Helped Dave

Architecture & Design: Evaluate and select viable architectures, technologies and options. 

Technical: Build out solution in collaboration with your team, including CMDB, data sources, workflow and dashboard reporting. 

Process/Alignment: Define and spec standard SLOs with application teams. Define SLO life-cycle, workflow and error budget management. 

Adoption & OCM: Create communications, training, documentation and onboarding to key team members and leadership.

This lead to…

  • More self-service adoption improves operational efficiency.
  • Consistent adoption of SLO approach means everyone understands whether performance goals are being met.
  • Standard visualizations, insights & reporting helps set clear expectations for services, products and features.