Archive for September, 2008
ITIL Application Management set encompasses a set of best practices proposed to improve the overall quality of IT software development and support through the life-cycle of software development projects, with particular attention to gathering and defining requirements that meet business objectives. What is now called ITIL version 1, developed under the auspices of the CCTA, […]
September 27th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
Guidelines for smaller IT units, not included in the original eight publications: has recently been supplemented. 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 […]
September 26th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
Although ITIL was originally created by the CCTA, a UK Government agency. it is now being adopted and used across the world as the defacto standard for best practice in the provision of IT Service. ITIL is often considered alongside other best practice frameworks such as the Information Services Procurement Library (ISPL), the Application Services […]
September 25th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
Although ITIL was originally created by the CCTA, a UK Government agency. it is now being adopted and used across the world as the defacto standard for best practice in the provision of IT Service. Accusations that many ITIL advocates think ITIL is “a holistic, all-encompassing framework for IT governance” are sometimes heard.The various roles […]
September 24th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | 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. While the Service Management sets (Service Support and Service Delivery) are by far the most widely used, circulated and understood of ITIL publications, ITIL provides a […]
September 17th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
It includes the necessary combination of Business (and overall IS) strategy, with technical design and architecture. One of the primary benefits claimed by proponents of ITIL within the IT community is its provision of common vocabulary, consisting of a glossary of tightly defined and widely agreed terms.The resultant information can be put before the project […]
September 9th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
In a recent survey, seventy-seven percent of survey respondents either agreed or strongly agreed that “ITIL does not have all the answers”. 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.Planning To Implement Service Management is mainly focused […]
September 7th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
ITIL gives a detailed description of a number of important IT practices with comprehensive checklists, tasks and procedures that can be tailored to any IT organization. The IT Service Support group provides for the direct support of IT services and consists of the Service Desk function and the Incident, Problem, Configuration, Change and Release Management. […]
September 6th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
A voluntary registry of ITIL-certified practitioners is operated by the ITIL Certification Register. IT Service Management as a concept is related but not equivalent to ITIL which, in Version 2, contained a subsection specifically entitled IT Service Management (ITSM).PRINCE2 is derived from the earlier PRINCE technique, which was initially developed in 1989 by the Central […]
September 4th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | 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 […]
September 2nd, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments