Archive for the ‘ITIL’ Category

The danger of impatience

Friday, May 4th, 2007

If there's a distinguishing characteristic of educational reform, and reform efforts in general, it's the lack of patience in sustaining difficult effort over time. We criticize students who can't seem to exercise delayed gratification, but don't seem to notice that educators, government officials, and the general public aren't any better. Reference: ...

ITIL Foundations, Day 2

Friday, September 15th, 2006

We talked a lot about disaster recovery, monitoring system availability, and financial accounting for IT services on day #2. Does your school district (or other organization) have a disaster recovery plan in place that lists each IT service and how fast you plan to recover back to full operation? Have ...

ITIL Foundations, Day 1

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

Whew! That's a lot of material. I walked into class this morning and had a thick binder full of detailed ITIL info waiting for me. The terminology is dense and there are a lot of new concepts to absorb. There are only six of us in the class, and I'm ...

Back to class

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Starting tomorrow morning I'll be in three days of classes at the U. of MN working toward an ITIL foundation certificate. The foundation course will cover all the basics of ITIL, and I'm hoping it will help me as I continue to rethink how we deliver IT services in my ...