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Muddled Management of Portfolios

Submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2011-11-15 10:11

Like most people these days I seldom truly read a book - properly. I read in fits and starts, I speed read sections and skip others entirely. So perhaps I missed something, but I had hoped the new book Management of Portfolios™ would be about portfolios in general not project portfolios in particular. It's not. it's all about projects. How can one OGC product so utterly disregard another?

where did OGC go?

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2011-07-29 18:43

OGCITIL v3 2011 is released and the little wanker* is no more. I am referring of course to the onanistic logo of the OGC that has appeared on the books for a couple of years. The IT Skeptic is reliably informed that the new edition of ITIL has no mention of our beloved OGC anywhere.

Ructions in Castle ITIL over Licensed Software Assessors for the ITIL Software Scheme?

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2011-04-29 04:26

Idly browsing the other day in another context, I noticed a most peculiar omission on the "ITIL Official Website" (that always strikes me as such a pompous name)...

Response from British Government to appeals for Free ITIL

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2011-03-25 01:10

The response to calls for an open ITIL has been disappointing, but perhaps should have been expected. It amounts to a single-digit salute from the Brit. Gov.

Why Free ITIL?

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2011-01-29 21:49

Further to my recent post on Free ITIL, several people are still asking "Why?", so let me elaborate a little on why it should happen and why you should support the idea.

The online world is used to free content. In many minds, this has come to mean free as in free beer not free as in free speech, i.e. gratis not libre. This is unfortunate but not part of the discussion today. Here we are talking about free libre content. It is how the 21st Century world will work.

Free ITIL®

Submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2011-01-25 20:25
I bet you came looking for free sources of ITIL. Come on, admit it.
We don't condone content piracy here. The following links will show you some legitimately free ITIL resources:
ITSM library for $211
Free V3 training
Free V3 exams
Free V3 books
Free Service Catalogue
Pass the V3 Foundation in free and easy steps

And while you are browsing, check these out:

The Standard+Case model
All about ITIL® Version 3
V3 process list / xref
V3 role list
V3 policy list
V2 to V3 diagram
Questions for ITIL vendors
Request classes
Checklists

The Free ITIL Movement is an informal community for those who wish to support the following proposition:
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We the supporters of the Free ITIL Movement call upon the Cabinet Office of Her Majesty's UK Government to honour the spirit of the government's policy on transparency and public data, and the letter of the United Kingdom Government Licencing Framework (UKGLF), by releasing the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) under the terms of the Open Government Licence (OGL).

ITIL publisher TSO and accreditor APMG have their contracts extended two years by OGC

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2011-01-21 19:23

OGC has renewed the outsourcing contracts for TSO to publish ITIL books and APMG to accredit ITIL training. And if I have this right, TSO defends the copyright and APMG defends the trademarked brand. The renewal is for two years - it could have been renewed from one to five years. It just feels odd being part of a supposed professional community and this is all we hear. This must be what it was like being a resident of a medieval estate: the news filters quietly down from the castle long after all is done and dusted.

Merry Christmas from the British Government? Is ITIL public domain?

Submitted by skeptic on Sun, 2010-12-26 11:24

There is a quiet revolution going on within the British Government right now. And it might just have handed the ITIL community a Christmas present: an open licence for ITIL.

the rising anger at OGC and APMG over ITIL and Prince2

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2010-12-23 20:12

There is rising anger at the attitudes and tactics of OGC and APMG over ITIL and Prince2. Most people can't speak out because APMG hold them to ransom over their livelihood. But a few do.

The bull in a china shop

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2010-12-09 18:14

I flushed out some interesting feedback by talking favourably about OGC's IP protection. ITIL depends on volunteers and it is a fragile arrangement. When those volunteers' first direct official contact ever with OGC or TSO or APMG is not a certificate of appreciation but rather a cease-and-desist letter from a lawyer, that does not contribute to good will. Nor does it create the impression that we're all in this together, creating a body of knowledge for the public good. (When are you ever going to say thank-you, OGC?)

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