When creating a high level description the following areas should be seen as the minimum requirements.

  • Introduction – What services are offered by whom or what, which are in scope, which are out of scope
  • Overview – include a diagram, How customers become engaged, what happens from a customer setting up a call to it appearing as an item on a bill

Address the following as a MINIMUM (cross reference and refer to your lower level documents):

  • Customer Management
    • Provisioning (including Moves, Changes & Disconnections)
    • Sales,
    • Order Management,
    • Enquiries,
    • Complaints & Retentions
  • Product Lifecycle
    • Governance,
    • Customer Notification,
    • Pricing,
    • Published Media,
    • Tariff Management
  • Service Operations
    • Switches,
    • Collections,
    • Mediation,
    • Suspense Management,
    • Billing,
    • Bill Delivery,
    • Incident, Problem & Change Management
  • 3rd Parties / Subcontractors
    • Services provided, impact on TMBS, how managed
  • Risk Assessment
  • Measurement