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ITIL V3 Certification via online training is back on again

skeptic — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:15:57 -0600

Call of a crow!!* What is going on in Castle ITIL? Is there a battle royal between vendor factions? The whole V3 Certification thing is lurching around like a pantomime donkey where the front guy has flatulence. Start of August it is confirmed from a good source that online training will not be possible for ITIL V3 course above Foundations level. It is in writing to some training providers that this is the case. End of August, e-learning is back in the syllabus. Apart from being very hard to keep up with, this leads to a dire prediction for ATOs if Castle ITIL decides to cut out the middleman...

Public review of the ITIL V3 Foundation Syllabus: who knew?

skeptic — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:58:56 -0600

APMG have just run an anonymous public survey for "your valuable feedback" on the ITIL V3 Foundation Syllabus. Who knew? Oh, come on! You had a whole five days to hear about it and respond.

Foundation is the ONLY V3 exam that is going to be on Prometric

skeptic — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:53:57 -0600

The IT Skeptic has confirmed pretty reliably that ITIL V3 Intermediate and Expert exams will NOT be available online without an associated training course. [updated: no it isn't. things changed between the start and end of August. Online training is back on!]

Feedback on the ITIL V3 manager's bridge exam

skeptic — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:34:23 -0600

The ITIL V3 examinations are seriously flawed. "Subjective" and "multi-choice" don't go together.

Just how does itSMF involve the members?

skeptic — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:58:13 -0600

Just how does itSMF involve the members? What does itSMF International do for international communications? How did the ITIL Qualifications Board survey the ITIL "community"?

APMG got its accreditation back

skeptic — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:49:40 -0600

Talk about timing. The IT Skeptic hears that, within a day or so of this blog, APMG got its accreditation back (look under "t" for "The APM Group"). Congratulations. Even the most strident of APMG critics must be sympathetic about having to wend the byzantine pathways of bureaucracy.

Another ITIL Examination Institute accredited by APMG

skeptic — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:38:25 -0600

The EXIN-and-ASEB (British Computer Society) stranglehold on ITIL certification slips even further away with the accreditation of a sixth Examination Institute (EI) by APMG, the OGC's outsourced official accreditation body. This despite the fact that APMG remains embarassingly without its own accreditation withdrawn by the British Government for six months now.

Three months later, APMG accreditation still suspended

skeptic — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:22:02 -0700

The IT Skeptic broke the news that APMG had been suspended by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service.

Three months later, APMG accreditation still suspended. This is obviously not a brief tiff to be resolved overnight.

APMG look set for some spectacular acrobatics over ITIL accreditation

skeptic — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:55:36 -0600

Further to the spot of bother APMG find themselves in with their "accreditation auditors" the UKAS, investigation reveals the suspension is a fact.

This blog is (currently) ITIL-centric, so most readers will be interested that I believe ITIL is not covered by the suspension.

Important ITIL certification news: APMG's accreditation by UKAS has been suspended

skeptic — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:51:09 -0600

Can any reader offer something more substantial than speculation to explain why The APM Group has had their accreditation by the UK Accreditation Service suspended?

APMG are the accreditor of all examination bodies for ITIL (and Prince2 and ...). They have had their accreditation suspended in both categories: