The IT Skeptic - Comments for "ITIL V3: where's the portal?"

It's a mirage..........

ITIL citizen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:37:43 +0000

The ITIL live portal is like a mirage in the desert, it is real only in the sense that we all believe it is somewhere in the distance.

Yet it is never to be found until some clever consultant comes along a builds their own version..............

Hi, I asked about the self

Visitor — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:57:49 +0000

Hi,

I asked about the self assessment for V3 and was told that it won't be this year and it may be sometime next year. The focus at the moment is on getting the books out. I guess I should just develop my own V3 assessement.

ITIL-live a DEAD END

John Worthington aka MySvcMon — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:06:44 +0000

As a member of PMI and ISACA, all I can say is ITIL (APMG, itSMF, et al) has a long way to go. I was hoping we'd see some self-assessment tools, perhaps leveraging V3 and ISO 15504 but that may be a Quixoti-like dream. Where's the VALUE?

The irony! Looks like this fork ( www.itil-live-portal.com ) has led us to a dead end. At least for now.

John M. Worthington
MyServiceMonitor, LLC

Hi, I think that it is a

Visitor — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:23:36 +0000

Hi,

I think that it is a shame that the portal is not up and running yet. Not that I have much hope for it to contain what it promises (we shall see once it is up and running). We have had issues with exams, book content, etc (all documented here) this is just yet another example of how not to do things. To me this does not represent a professional body. I hope this changes in the future.

Existence??

kengon — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:03:06 +0000

Skep,

In a certain sense, just having the idea is enough. It exists in my mind! After all, its description does sound pretty compelling. In this way, it's like a movie set -- provides the appearance of being real (well, sort of) without having to be real.

Still, for those of us who'd prefer the "real thing", I guess that we'll just queue up at those sites that actually work and try to get on with it there (or here, as the case may be).

Hmmmmm... while we're talking about getting on with it, now that I think about it, perhaps this actually now qualifies as a "Known Error" suitable for an entry in BOKKED! :-D