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Call for authors and reviewers for the ITIL V3 Refresh refresh

Blog entry submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2009-10-28 20:54. [nid:1705]
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All you budding ITIL authors, now is your chance.

You've had prior warning of the ITIL Refresh-refresh. Now TSO give you three weeks to make a submission to be the author of a rewrite of one of the six books (Official Introduction is also being revised). Hey it's more notice than they gave authors of other frameworks!

Time to decide if you want to give up near a year of your life to (re-)writing, editing, reviewing, launching, and promoting for the princely sum of £10,000, plus of course fame and glory (and criticism and derision from the likes of me) until the next refresh unpicks your work again.

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Do you fancy it?

Submitted by Peter Johnson (not verified) on Wed, 2009-10-28 22:25.

How about you?

I mean, are you considering it? I think it would be pretty interesting if the poacher became gamekeeper so to speak.

But I'm agreeing that the remuneration sucks...

writing books

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2009-10-28 22:57.

Nobody gets rich writing books (unless you are Gladwell or Bryson or Rowling). You do it for the ongoing revenue from the fame, for the glory, for a cause, or for the personal gratification and self expression.

My family is walking too fine a line beside poverty to take this on, even if ten thousand quid looks a lot better in NZ$. I'd not be good at this task either: what is needed is crossing off a lot of details not big-picture conceptualising - that is explicitly prohibited. And that's assuming TSO would even consider me - a few bridges burnt there...

ahh pick a topic you've written on

Submitted by Dave (not verified) on Thu, 2009-10-29 02:04.

and submit it as a chapter/section (copyright issues notwithstanding).

These things are written by committee from the look of it (well - the V2 one I have looks like that). It'd probably be profitable to have your name on one as a contributor.

No dosh - just kudos with big payback. I know pink elephant emphasize their part in these things. If you picked something that you were intimately familiar with, AND which is currently screwed up, then it might not be the mountain it looks.

oops - and a comment AFTER reading tfa

Submitted by Dave (not verified) on Thu, 2009-10-29 04:20.

I really should read The FineArticle that's referenced before commenting. I've been on slashdot too long.

ok they want ONE author per book - big mistake I think (although books written by multiple authors are seldom well done).

Still - you'd make a good reviewer. Which might have payback.

dave

IT Skeptic Member Poll request

Submitted by ITIL citizen on Thu, 2009-10-29 13:14.

The OGC has announced it will be performing a refresh of the ITIL V3 refresh. I would like the IT Skeptic to respond to this challenge by:

0 Volunteering to be a reviewer
0 Volunteering to be an author
0 Continuing to remain independant and not get sucked into Castle ITIL.

There will be many authors

Submitted by avallesalas on Mon, 2009-11-02 21:01.

Well... if they assign the books to different authors than in V3.0, then... what will happen? complete rewrite? style mixing?

Antonio Valle
G2, Gobierno y Gestión de TI
http://www.gedos.es

Is this on schedule?

Submitted by aroos on Mon, 2010-01-04 07:55.

Authors should have been chosen in November and reviewers in December. Has anyone heard anything?
Aale

gathering pace

Submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2010-01-04 11:34.

Can't find anything, haven't heard anything except the appointment of the "mentors" on December 8th with the reassuring news that "The update ... is gathering pace". Gathering from zero to crawl one assumes...

What is the future of ITIL

Submitted by aroos on Mon, 2010-01-04 13:02.

There have a few discussions on the subject of ITIL as a fad. Here are some thoughts on the matter.

When I started with Quint, the CEO Frank Grift predicted that the training boom will last for eight years. Looking at the growth figures of ITIL exams one can see the 8-year wave which started in 1994 and reached the peak 1998. This is the mainly Dutch wave (there might have been an earlier UK wave?). In 2002 a new wave started (I saw that coming and in June 2002 wrote to my Finnish customers that ITIL is coming). The second wave peaked in 2004 and is slowing down. (This would look better in a graph but I suppose I cannot add one, Rob?)

1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
317 % 152 % 150 % 194 % 155 % 142 % 112 % 114 % 129 % 201 % 197 % 156 % 149 % 118 %

Please notice that these are annual growth percentages, the actual exam volume in 1998 is less that 10% of the 2001. Please notice that the business is still growing at a rate of 100%. The point is that the speed of the growth is slowing down rapidly and if there is no new wave coming, it predicts the end of the ITIL training industry. I saw a similar wave with help desk consulting and training in 1993-2000.

This might mean that when ITIL 3.5 comes out late 2012 or more likely early 2013, there will not be much interest.

Aale

reports of ITIL's death may be premature

Submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2010-01-04 17:44.

If annual growth rates are "falling" towards an annual doubling, I'd say the wave has plenty of years to run yet. based on that graph growth won't stop for years, which will still leave us with a huge industry with massive momentum.

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