The IT Skeptic - Comments for "ITIL publisher TSO and accreditor APMG have their contracts extended two years by OGC"

Good job?

pjotrg — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:56:59 +0000

Did APMG realy did a good job?
- it started with badly defined foundation exams (a quality dip after the work that EXIN and ISEB had done). Ok.... they corrected over time......
- the translations of the exams and books are much and much slower than promised. Are "living deadlines" regarded as "quality" now?
- AMPG started concurrencing its own customers (The Exams Institutes) with APMG International. I've asked many times to APMG representatives on how to explain this situation (a huge conflict of interest IHMO) to the market. No response, not even the very honest: we too would like to share a piece of the very profitable certification market.

So, instead of being punished for bad perfomance and not meeting agreed deadlines they get a new contract. Strange!

TSO and APMG do what they're paid and allowed to do

skeptic — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:48:07 +0000

I think APMG and TSO do a good job of what they're supposed to do. I have plenty of criticism of them but if I was a for-profit company given the powers they have I'm not sure I'd be that much different. No surprise that OGC are renewing. What really steams me up is OGC's governance not APMG/TSO's practices. Well both maybe :)

I think the two-year thing has zero to do with TSO's or APMGs' performance and everything to do with uncertainty about OGC's future.

Take a look on the bright side

Steven De Smet — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:37:30 +0000

Well it is extended for only 2 years, not 5! (is it possible to extend it again after this period?)
Those last 5 years flew by like it was still yesterday EXIN and ISEB where fighting against APMG.