http://itilconcepts.cyeblog.com Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:52:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It includes the necessary combination of Business (and overall IS) strategy, with technical design and architecture. In a 2004 survey designed by Noel Bruton (author of 'How to Manage the IT Helpdesk' and 'Managing the IT Services Process'), ITIL adopting organizations were asked to relate their actual experiences in having ... http://itilconcepts.cyeblog.com/itil-toolkit/2008/07/05/ On July 20, 2006, the OGC signed a contract with the APM Group to be its commercial partner for ITIL accreditation from January 1, 2007. ITIL Small-Scale Implementation provides an approach to the implementation of the ITIL framework for those with smaller IT units or departments.Once this work is done, ... http://itilconcepts.cyeblog.com/itil-methodology/2008/06/19/ 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. IT Service Management as a concept is related but not equivalent to ITIL which, in ... http://itilconcepts.cyeblog.com/iso-iec-20000-it-service-management-system/2008/06/02/ Accusations that many ITIL advocates think ITIL is "a holistic, all-encompassing framework for IT governance" are sometimes heard. 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.Configuration Management is a ... http://itilconcepts.cyeblog.com/certification-itil/2008/05/31/ 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). ITIL has been criticized on several fronts.Van Schaik compiled the 1985 book ... http://itilconcepts.cyeblog.com/itil-project-manager/2008/05/30/ ITIL is organized into a series of sets, which themselves are divided into two main areas: service support and service delivery. ITIL is published in a series of books, each of which cover an IT management topic.APM Group have defined the concept of a PRINCE2 Maturity Model. Configuration Management is ... http://itilconcepts.cyeblog.com/change-management-itil/2008/05/28/ The ITIL concept is centered around IT services as opposed to IT systems. 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.PRINCE2 specifies the way in which progress should be monitored and how the ... http://itilconcepts.cyeblog.com/itil-job-position/2008/05/26/ 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. The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of concepts and techniques ... http://itilconcepts.cyeblog.com/it-service-management-gta/2008/05/22/ A new and enhanced glossary has been developed as a key deliverable of the ITIL v3 (also known as the ITIL Refresh Project). 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.In ... http://itilconcepts.cyeblog.com/itil-job-openings/2008/05/21/ The ITIL Frameword shares best practises that can be customized for individual organistaion by IT practicioners and consultants. 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 ... http://itilconcepts.cyeblog.com/itil-practitioner-v3/2008/05/20/