Wednesday, April 9, 2008

ITIL Best Practice

ITIL Small-Scale Implementation provides an approach to the implementation of the ITIL framework for those with smaller IT units or departments. 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 the publications into logical 'sets' that grouped related process guidelines into the different aspects of IT management, applications and services.

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The high level activities are Risk Analysis, Contingency Plan Management, Contingency Plan Testing, and Risk Management. The negative aspect is that many of the essential elements of PRINCE2 can be omitted sometimes resulting in a PINO project - Prince in Name Only. ITIL Best Practice The use of PRINCE2 has spread beyond the UK to more than 50 other countries.

ITSM can be seen as analogous to an enterprise resource planning (ERP) discipline for IT - although its historical roots in IT operations may limit its applicability across other major IT activities, such as IT portfolio management and software engineering. IT Service Management is often equated with the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, (ITIL), an official publication of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom.

Serviceability: The ability for an external supplier to maintain the availability of component or function under a third party contract.

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