Archive for October, 2008
The ITIL Toolkit is a collection of resources brought together specifially to accompany ITIL. Accusations that many ITIL advocates think ITIL is “a holistic, all-encompassing framework for IT governance” are sometimes heard.The focus of release management is the protection of the live environment and its services through the use of formal procedures and checks. Best […]
October 27th, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
The ITIL recommendations were developed in the 1980s by the UK Government’s CCTA in response to the growing dependence on IT and a recognition that without standard practices, government agencies and private sector contracts were independently creating their own IT management practices and duplicating effort within their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) projects resulting in […]
October 26th, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
ITIL v3, published in May 2007, comprises 5 key volumes. There is a lot of confusion about ITIL, stemming from all kinds of misunderstandings about its nature.A Survey called “The ITIL Experience - Has It Been Worth It”, author Bruton Consultancy 2004, was published by Helpdesk Institute Europe, The Helpdesk and IT Support Show and […]
October 24th, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
Although the ITIL covers a number of areas, its main focus is on IT Service Management. What is now called ITIL version 1, developed under the auspices of the CCTA, was titled “Government Information Technology Infrastructure Management Methodology” (GITMM) and over several years eventually expanded to 31 volumes in a project initially directed by Peter […]
October 22nd, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
Guidelines for smaller IT units, not included in the original eight publications: has recently been supplemented. A new and enhanced glossary has been developed as a key deliverable of the ITIL v3 (also known as the ITIL Refresh Project).There is just one effect for several causes and one cause for several effects. ITSM represents a […]
October 21st, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
In the early 1990s the UK set up a scheme where onsultants were hired, processes evaluated, and the result was the creation of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), which was later made available to the public. ITIL Application Management set encompasses a set of best practices proposed to improve the overall quality of IT […]
October 19th, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
ITIL is, as the OGC states, a set of best practices. The set of best practices, which were developed in the UK in the 1980s, have become the standard for IT service management globally, despite the fact that the framework represents a dramatic shift from traditional IT thinking.Nolan work, Managing the Data Resource Function which […]
October 18th, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
Primarily as a support to other processes, both in Infrastructure Management and Service Management, Technical Support provides a number of specialist functions: Research and Evaluation, Market Intelligence (particularly for Design and Planning and Capacity Management), Proof of Concept and Pilot engineering, specialist technical expertise (particularly to Operations and Problem Management), creation of documentation (perhaps for […]
October 17th, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
ITIL is an acronym for IT Infrastructure Library. The IT Infrastructure Library consists of a series of publications that describe a framework for delivering and managing IT services.Invocation - Invocation details everyone who has the authority to invoke the recovery plan. Best Practice portfolio: new contracts awarded for publishing and accreditation services (HTML). IT Management […]
October 14th, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments
ITIL is owned by the United Kingdom’s Office of Government Commerce. The OGC’s site provides information on how to get ITIL documentation. There’s also a handbook for implementing ITIL. Accusations that proponents of ITIL indoctrinate the methodology with ‘religious zeal’ at the expense of pragmatism continue to be heard.The central role of Service Level Management […]
October 13th, 2008 | Posted in ITIL | No Comments