Archive for April, 2008
ITIL is an acronym for IT Infrastructure Library. ITIL exponents, citing ITIL’s stated intention to be non-prescriptive, are expecting that organizations will have to engage ITIL processes with their existing overall process model.Identifying the interdependencies will bring to light other procedures which may need to be enacted in conjunction with the recovery plan. PRINCE2 provides […]
April 16th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | 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. 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 […]
April 15th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
The IT Infrastructure Library consists of a series of publications that describe a framework for delivering and managing IT services. ITIL v3 initially includes five core texts.In the scenario where a disaster has occurred, not only is the patient registration application needed but additionally any supporting IT infrastructure and services such as active directory, networks, […]
April 15th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
Configuration management, when used strictly for software development, is called Software Configuration Management (SCM). 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 more comprehensive set of practices as a whole.PRINCE (PRojects IN Controlled Environments) was first developed […]
April 14th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
An ITIL Toolkit usually includes materials which are intended to assist in both understanding and implementation, and are designed for both existing ITIL users and beginners. ITIL Small-Scale Implementation provides an approach to the implementation of the ITIL framework for those with smaller IT units or departments.The PRINCE2 methodology works with most project management techniques. […]
April 13th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
ITIL v3 initially includes five core texts. An ITIL Triangle is a diagram that describes the relationship between ITIL, the BS15000 service management standard, and your own in-house procedures.ITSCM should not work in isolation from an organization’s business requirements, nor should it work in isolation from the other ITSM processes. Operations should primarily work from […]
April 13th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | 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. 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 more comprehensive […]
April 12th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
ITIL (the IT Infrastructure Library) is essentially a series of documents that are used to aid the implementation of a framework for IT Service Management. In a recent survey, seventy-seven percent of survey respondents either agreed or strongly agreed that “ITIL does not have all the answers”.Prince2 describes procedures to coordinate people and activities in […]
April 11th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
The ITIL Frameword shares best practises that can be customized for individual organistaion by IT practicioners and consultants. A voluntary registry of ITIL-certified practitioners is operated by the ITIL Certification Register.ICT Design and Planning drives both the Procurement of new ICT solutions through the production of Statements of Requirement (”SOR”) and Invitations to Tender (”ITT”) […]
April 10th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
The Infrastructure Management processes describe those processes within ITIL that directly relate to the ICT equipment and software that is involved in providing ICT services to customers. Accusations that proponents of ITIL indoctrinate the methodology with ‘religious zeal’ at the expense of pragmatism continue to be heard.The PRINCE2 process consists of three sub-processes and these […]
April 9th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments