The IT Skeptic - Comments for "definition of incident"

An impressive piece of skepticism

skeptic — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:52:10 +0000

Wow, this is an impressive list. You are shortlisted for the IT Skeptic's The Grand Sagan Candle for IT Skepticism for 2008!

I'll put all these in BOKKED

Other curiosa

aroos — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:56:02 +0000

Good question. I have been really suprised there has not been more criticism against V3. I suppose a lot of people have only listened presentations about V3 but have not read the books.

There are more strange things in the books. Have you noticed these:

the new name for Configuration Management, SACM appears only in the process itself. Not even the authors of other chapters in the same book are aware of the name change.

ITSCM has a strategy dimension but it is not discussed in the strategy book

Transition planning defines releace policy, which makes sense. Release management also defines release policy which makes less sense.

Nobody refers to Evaluation process in any other process.

Application Management process is fully descibed under the organization but it is not mentionoed as a process.

Reporting process description is one page long.

CSI speak nearly only of measurement and analysis. The real challenge is the improvement.

My guess is that the whole project went wrong and in the end they did not have time to review or coordinate the content.

Br Aale Roos

curious amalgam of Incident, Event and Request

skeptic — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:32:39 +0000

You're right, it does appear to be a curious amalgam of Incident, Event and Request.

"unplanned interruption": Incident
"Failure of a configuration item that has not yet impacted service": Event
"questions or queries": Request

How did that one get past all the reviewers? The Two Davids are not silly and are highly experienced in ITIL, so this has me stumped.