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In a previous job of mine, our entire IT department adopted ITIL as
their standard. So, they mandated that all employees receive training on
ITIL. You can see where this is going . . . I wrote the training manuals
and trained their groups on ITIL, and how it affected each of their jobs
and work processes. Another popular methodology that competes with ITIL
(and yet, is similar to ITIL)is Six Sigma.
ITIL is a public-domain framework that was developed in the late 1980s,
originally by the British government. It has been widely adopted by
European companies, and North American companies are increasingly
adopting ITIL.
For what it's worth, I know that over 10,000 companies have adopted ITIL
in all or parts of their IT departments, including:
- The Internal Revenue Service
- AT&T
- Aetna
- Microsoft
- Proctor & Gamble
- IBM
- Lucent Technologies
- Oracle
- EDS
- FedEx
- Boeing
- Oracle
- HP
Hope this helps!
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In another thread, Rosie Wilcox asks:
> Are they following any industry standards such as
> ITIL, CMMI, or other life cycle methodology?
I have searched in the archives and Googled, so I know ITIL is the IT
Infrastructure Library, but I would like to hear how this standard
affects
your work as a tech writer. (I could not find any references to it in
the
TECHWR-L archives.) Do you adhere to ITIL in your company? Why does your
company use it and how?
This is not only directed at Rosie, but everyone else as well.
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