ITIL Ogc Pink Elephant

Guidelines for smaller IT units, not included in the original eight publications: has recently been supplemented. Smaller organizations that cannot justify a full ITIL program and materials can gain insight into ITIL from a review of the Microsoft Operations Framework which is based on ITIL but defines a more limited implementation. Although the ITIL covers a number of areas, its main focus is on IT Service Management.

This meant that adoption of CCTA guidance such as ITIL was delayed, as various other departments fought to take over new responsibilities. A means for capturing and assessing project issues is suggested together with the way in which corrective action should be taken. ITIL Ogc Pink Elephant PRINCE (PRojects IN Controlled Environments) was first developed by CCTA, now part of OGC, in 1989 as a UK Government standard for IT project management.

There will always be problems and costs associated with implementing ITSCM. The initiation stage outcome will be the charter, project scope, project timeline, and main ITSCM policy all documents will be referred to in subsequent stages.

Eventually CCTA succumbed and the concept of a central driving IT authority for the UK Government was lost.