{"id":2420,"date":"2014-03-29T07:25:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2014-04-27T07:26:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T14:26:24","slug":"itil-foundations-class-march-26-28-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg.porter.name\/wordpress\/?p=2420","title":{"rendered":"ITIL Foundations Class – March 26-28, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our organization at SJSU is implementing IT service management based upon ITIL<\/a>. \u00a0To support this, I recently took a ITIL Foundation class from Global Knowledge<\/a> on site at SJSU from March 26-28, 2014…\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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We arranged for this class with Global Knowledge<\/a>. \u00a0 We did this on site at SJSU. \u00a0The instructor we learned from was Thomas “Bart” Barthold<\/a>. \u00a0Bart has many years of IT service management and ITIL implementation experience.<\/p>\n

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a globally recognized collection of\u00a0best practices for information technology (IT) service management. The United Kingdom’s Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) created ITIL in response to growing dependence on information technology for meeting business needs and goals.\u00a0ITIL\u00a0provides businesses with a customizable framework of best practices to achieve quality service and overcome difficulties associated with the growth of IT systems.<\/p>\n

ITIL is organized into “sets” of books which are defined by related functions: service strategy, service design, managerial, service transition, service operation and continual service improvement. software. In addition to the books, which can be purchased online, ITIL services and products include training, qualifications, software tools and user groups such as the IT Service Management Forum (itSMF).<\/p>\n

The ITIL Foundation class<\/a> Bart took us through is an overview of ITIL, so we learned a little about all of the ITIL topics and how they inter-relate. \u00a0This is a good class to get a working knowledge of what ITIL is and how you can use it to improve IT Service Management. \u00a0Bart did a great job.<\/p>\n

This class concludes with an opportunity is take the ITIL Foundation (2011) certification<\/a> examination, which I took and passed, so I have the ITIL Foundation (2011) certification now as of March 28, 2014. \u00a0The Foundation Level is the entry level qualification which offers candidates a general awareness of the key elements, concepts and terminology used in the ITIL Service Lifecycle, including the linkages between Lifecycle stages, the processes used and their contribution to Service Management practices.<\/p>\n

The basic topics this class covers are:<\/p>\n