Service & product · reference function

Cloud Service Catalogue Management

Publish clear, owned cloud services with entry conditions, service expectations and lifecycle status.

Reference mandate

Own catalogue structure, service metadata, request paths and publication quality while ensuring every listed service has an accountable owner and operable delivery model.

Short

Publish clear, owned cloud services with entry conditions, service expectations and lifecycle status.

Standard

Own catalogue structure, service metadata, request paths and publication quality while ensuring every listed service has an accountable owner and operable delivery model.

Detailed

Own catalogue structure, service metadata, request paths and publication quality while ensuring every listed service has an accountable owner and operable delivery model. The function maintains explicit decision boundaries, measurable outcomes, governed interfaces and a documented improvement loop for its scope.

Scope in

  • Catalogue structure
  • Service metadata quality
  • Request path publication
  • Catalogue lifecycle control

Scope out

  • Service outcome accountability
  • Engineering backlog ownership
  • Commercial product marketing

Responsibilities

  • Catalogue structure
  • Service metadata quality
  • Request path publication
  • Catalogue lifecycle control

Services

  • Catalogue structure service
  • Service metadata quality service
  • Request path publication service
  • Catalogue lifecycle control service

Required capabilities

  • Service Catalogue Manager capability
  • Catalogue Analyst capability
  • Service Designer capability

Roles

  • Service Catalogue Manager
  • Catalogue Analyst
  • Service Designer

Decision rights

  • Publish a catalogue entry
  • Reject incomplete service metadata
  • Archive an obsolete catalogue item

Key interfaces

  • Cloud Service Management
  • Demand & Service Intake
  • Cloud Product Management

Inputs

  • Requirements from Cloud Service Management
  • Requirements from Demand & Service Intake

Outputs

  • Governed output to Demand & Service Intake
  • Governed output to Cloud Product Management

Governance forums

  • Catalogue design review
  • Cloud operating-model review

Measures

  • Owned-service coverage
  • Catalogue accuracy
  • Request completion

Dependencies

  • Cloud Service Management
  • Demand & Service Intake
  • Cloud Product Management

Sourcing options

  • Retained internal
  • Shared
  • MSP-supported

Organizational placements

  • Central cloud organization
  • Federated domain
  • Shared technology function

Decisions owned

  • Publish a catalogue entry
  • Reject incomplete service metadata
  • Archive an obsolete catalogue item

Decisions contributed to

  • Contribute to decisions owned by Cloud Service Management
  • Contribute to decisions owned by Demand & Service Intake
  • Contribute to decisions owned by Cloud Product Management
Design boundary

Common failure modes

  • The catalogue is a static list
  • Items have no service owner
  • Request paths diverge from documented services
Sourcing principle

Catalogue administration can be external; taxonomy and publication accountability remain internal.

Minimum retained capability

Catalogue administration can be external; taxonomy and publication accountability remain internal.

Maturity guidance

Begin with named ownership and one measurable outcome; add delegation and automation only when evidence and capability are reliable.

Reference note

Vendor-neutral practitioner reference pattern; validate against organizational, regulatory and sourcing context.

Version 2026.3 · reviewed 8 September 2026