Archive for May, 2008
The Visible OPS Handbook: Implementing ITIL in 4 Practical and Auditable Steps claims to be based on ITIL but to focus specifically on the biggest “bang for the buck” elements of ITIL. The current move towards ISO/IEC 27001 may require some revision to the ITIL Security Management best practices which are often claimed to be […]
May 31st, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
The ITIL Toolkit is very widely employed. The ITIL framework doesn’t outline specific steps that businesses must follow, but it shares with IT professionals best practices that they can customize to their organizations.ITSCM focuses on the IT services required to support the organizations critical lines of business. Change management works with ITSCM to make sure […]
May 30th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
Accusations that proponents of ITIL indoctrinate the methodology with ‘religious zeal’ at the expense of pragmatism continue to be heard. 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.ITIL: Service Continuity Management ProcessOh the disaster, the sudden unexpected […]
May 28th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
The ITIL-process Security Management describes the structured fitting of information security in the management organization. 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.Many organistaions are now planning To […]
May 26th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
ITIL is published in a series of books, each of which cover an IT management topic. ITIL v3, published in May 2007, comprises 5 key volumes.Initially developed only for the need of IT projects, the latest version, PRINCE2, is designed for all types of management projects. Many organistaions are now planning To Implement Service Management. […]
May 22nd, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | 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 […]
May 21st, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
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, including various Service Management subjects. In order to make ITIL more accessible (and affordable) to those wishing to explore it, one of the aims of ITIL v2 was to consolidate […]
May 20th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
ITIL Small-Scale Implementation provides an approach to the implementation of the ITIL framework for those with smaller IT units or departments. In a recent survey, seventy-seven percent of survey respondents either agreed or strongly agreed that “ITIL does not have all the answers”.Organizations or a management system may not be certified as “ITIL-compliant”. ITSM represents […]
May 15th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
Guidelines for smaller IT units, not included in the original eight publications: has recently been supplemented. ITIL certifications are managed by the ITIL Certification Management Board (ICMB) which is composed of the OGC, IT Service Management Forum (itSMF) International and two examinations institutes: EXIN (based in the Netherlands) and ISEB (based in the UK).Configuration Management […]
May 13th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
IT Service Continuity Management helps to ensure the availability and rapid restoration of IT services in the event of a disaster. 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 […]
May 12th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments