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ITIL 4®, DevOps and agile, it's a brave new world!

ITIL® is a registered trade mark of AXELOS Limited

Stéphane JORET • BCS CMSG Conference • London, 15th May 2019


Contents

1. Overview of ITIL 4
2. DevOps, agile and ITSM together
3. Asset and CI separated for the better
4. Next steps
Flexible, practical and a strong focus on common sense

1. Overview of ITIL 4

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End-to-end value co-creation with IT-enabled services

1. Overview of ITIL 4 • The ITIL Service Value System (SVS) allows breaking siloes
• Its central element is an operating model: the service value chain

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ITIL guiding principles to facilitate any initiative

1. Overview of ITIL 4

• These principles are also reflected in many other frameworks, methods,


standards, philosophies, and/or bodies of knowledge, such as Lean,
Agile, DevOps, and COBIT
• No hierarchy between these principles to be applied as widely as
possible without censorship

Of course, they can make service configuration management successful


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Configuration management in multi-sourcing contexts

1. Overview of ITIL 4 The service


relationship
model,
because
everything is
connected

The four dimensions,


because the process is
not enough

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ITIL practices consider the 4 dimensions

1. Overview of ITIL 4

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Contents

1. Overview of ITIL 4
2. DevOps, agile and ITSM together
3. Asset and CI separated for the better
4. Next steps
Change control practice

ITSM together
2. DevOps, agile and

• Scope of change control specific to


each organization:
• Infrastructure
• Applications
• Documentation
• Process
• Supplier relationships
• Any other aspect that may impact a
product or service

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Change authority

ITSM together
2. DevOps, agile and

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Change schedule

ITSM together
2. DevOps, agile and

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Release management practice

ITSM together
2. DevOps, agile and

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Deployment management practice

ITSM together
2. DevOps, agile and

• Works closely with:


• Release management
• Change control

• In some organizations the term ‘provisioning’ is used to describe


the deployment of infrastructure, and deployment is only used to
mean software deployment, but in this case the term deployment is
used to mean both
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Traditional/waterfall and Agile/DevOps environments

ITSM together
2. DevOps, agile and Traditional/waterfall
environment

Agile/DevOps
environment

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Contents

1. Overview of ITIL 4
2. DevOps, agile and ITSM together
3. Asset and CI separated for the better
4. Next steps
IT asset management practice
3. Asset and CI
separated for the better

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Scopes and types of asset management
3. Asset and CI
separated for the better
• Typical scope
• Software
• Hardware
• Client devices
• Networking
• Cloud services
• May also include
• Non-IT assets such
as buildings
• Information
• Operational
technology (OT)
including devices that
are part of the IoT
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Service configuration management practice
3. Asset and CI
separated for the better

• Configuration items (CI)


• How they are configured
• Their relationships

• Information about
dependencies between
services
• High-level view often
called service map or
service model
• Forms part of the service
architecture

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CMDB and CMS
3. Asset and CI
separated for the better

• Caution: potentially sensitive data


• Access to CIs from other practice records: incidents, problems,
changes...
• Choice of configuration data to be maintained according to the needs
• Many implementation options
• Single CMDB for the whole organization or distributed across several sources
• Federated CMDBs to provide an integrated view
• Separate data stores for asset management data, configuration details, service
catalogue information, and high-level service models
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IT asset and configuration item
3. Asset and CI
separated for the better

A detail that makes all the difference...

…and frees configuration managers for many ITAM considerations such as


finance, purchase, contracts, compliance…

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Sommaire

1. Overview of ITIL 4
2. DevOps, agile and ITSM together
3. Asset and CI separated for the better
4. Next steps
Upcoming ITIL 4 practice guides

4. Next steps • They are designed as a toolkit


• Fully integrated with all ITIL 4 components
• To be adopted to go fast
• To be adapted to fit each organization’s objectives

• Each will provide implementation guidance about specific


• Concepts, success factors, KPI’s and other general information
• Processes, activities, contribution to service value chain…
• Needed competences and roles, organizational solutions…
• Information objects, tooling, automation…
• Sourcing considerations, relationships with third parties…

• The first four draft practice guides were reviewed by the


community until the 10th of May
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New content progressively released

4. Next steps • 34 practice guides will be progressively released


• Until the beginning of 2020
• To cover the full spectrum described in the Foundation book
• And provide necessary content for the certification scheme

• Jan ØBERG (Denmark) and Stéphane JORET (France) are in


charge of writing the IT Asset Management practice guide
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Early 2019, our training courses
switch from ITIL® v3 to ITIL® 4

ITIL® 4 Foundation
with certification exam

ITIL® 4 Foundation
without certification exam

Review of ITIL® 4 Foundation

Stéphane JORET with certification exam

Senior expert consultant Discovery of ITIL® 4


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Customized ITIL® e-learning
video

• Only contributor to ITIL 4 in France ITIL® 4 educational package


• Co-author of the upcoming ITIL 4 for training organizations
practice guide for ITAM
IT Asset Management Foundation
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