Saturday, November 1, 2008

What Is ITIL

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 current move towards ISO/IEC 27001 may require some revision to the ITIL Security Management best practices which are often claimed to be rich in content for physical security but weak in areas such as software/application security and logical security in the ICT infrastructure. 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 traditional IT thinking.

Quality control during the development and implementation of new hardware and software is also the responsibility of Release Management. The overall approach to be taken is decided and the next stage of the project is planned. What Is ITIL ITSM represents a structured approach to how an IT organization goes about planning for, developing, delivering and supporting IT services.

The Practitioner Level provides the skills necessary for the process owner, managers and staff members. To help maintain the process, a commitment to training, reviewing the process, and testing the process needs to occur.

A simplification of ITIL, called FITS was developed for UK schools.

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