ITIL V3 love takes time

Blog entry submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2008-10-20 21:24. [nid:1200]
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The IT Skeptic is not anti-ITIL V3. ITSM View suggests "There are plenty out there that are seemingly wanting to derail ITIL v3". I'm not one of them. Nor can I think of anyone who is. That blog post has the heading "Where is the love?". Let us not confuse reluctance to leap immediately into bed with active animosity.


Once upon a time people grew up together, and falling in love was a gradual process of getting to know those best suited. Wise heads knew that falling in lust is not the same thing. The brilliant Australian cartoonist Patrick Cook offered the advice to potential newlyweds "Try to get to know each other before the sex wears off".

Just because people are not dumping ITIL V2 like a Vegas bride and running into V3's arms does not mean they want V3 to go away. It is just too much too soon.

We need time to get to know V3. We want to assess compatibility, take time to grow together, and to find out if it has any less endearing personal habits.

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Strange love

Submitted by Red Pineapple on Tue, 2008-10-21 08:07.

What I find strange is the humanization of actions and objects. Should we be dealing with this matter in such a subjective fashion?
Take eating as another example. It has a very well defined requirement, we eat or die. Some people use a knife and fork and others use chopsticks. We don't really care who uses knifes and forks and who uses chopsticks. Although many people say they love eating, no-one really says they love chopsticks (or knifes and forks!)
ITIL v2 and ITIL v3 should not have been numbered (as this assumes progression). It should just be called ITIL Knifes and Forks and ITIL Chopsticks, and love should have nothing to do with it.

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