Archive for March, 2008
The IT Infrastructure Library consists of a series of publications that describe a framework for delivering and managing IT services. ITIL is published in a series of books, each of which cover an IT management topic.Ability of an IT component to perform at an agreed level at described conditions. Transformation of business practice through radical […]
March 31st, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
Guidelines for smaller IT units, not included in the original eight publications: has recently been supplemented. Although the ITIL covers a number of areas, its main focus is on IT Service Management.Bruton notes that the claim to non-prescriptiveness must be at best one of scale rather than absolute intention, for the very description of a […]
March 30th, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
The ITIL discipline - Planning To Implement Service Management attempts to provide practitioners with a framework for the alignment of business needs and IT provision requirements. Although the ITIL covers a number of areas, its main focus is on IT Service Management.PRINCE2 is a structured approach to project management. Incident Control: life cycle management of […]
March 30th, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
The ITIL discipline - Planning To Implement Service Management attempts to provide practitioners with a framework for the alignment of business needs and IT provision requirements. ITIL is organized into a series of sets, which themselves are divided into two main areas: service support and service delivery.Business Continuity Management describes the responsibilities and opportunities available […]
March 29th, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
It includes many project management disciplines in common with PRINCE2, but has a broader focus to include the necessary integration of Release Management and both functional and non functional testing. ITIL v3 initially includes five core texts.IT service continuity management is the process responsible for assessing the impact of the disruption on IT services. IT […]
March 28th, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
The IT Service Delivery group supports the planning and delivery of IT services and consists of Service Level, Availability, Capacity, IT Service Continuity and Financial Management processes. IT Service Continuity Management helps to ensure the availability and rapid restoration of IT services in the event of a disaster.The focus of release management is the protection […]
March 28th, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
IT departments primarily have been self-contained entities that were focused strictly on running operating systems, mainframes, and min-computers, fixing desktop computers and maintaining other IT equipment, or developing in-house software. Outside of ITIL, other IT Service Management approaches and frameworks exist, including the Enterprise Computing Institute’s library covering general issues of large scale IT management, […]
March 27th, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
Many ITIL-certified consultants and trainers have set up business for themsleves to assist companies to implement these best practices. It includes many project management disciplines in common with PRINCE2, but has a broader focus to include the necessary integration of Release Management and both functional and non functional testing.Problem investigation and diagnosis is very important. […]
March 27th, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
The goal of ‘Problem Management’ is to resolve the root cause of incidents and thus to minimize the adverse impact of incidents and problems on business that are caused by errors within the IT infrastructure, and to prevent recurrence of incidents related to these errors. ITIL is an acronym for IT Infrastructure Library.PRINCE2 specifies the […]
March 26th, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
IT infrastructure changes can impact the manner in which business is conducted or the continuity of business operations. ITIL has been criticized on several fronts.ICT Operations may often work closely alongside Incident Management and the Service Desk, which are not-necessarily technical in order to provide an ‘Operations Bridge’. The high level activities are Risk Analysis, […]
March 25th, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments