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Best practices
Center for Business Practices
The CBP is a knowledge center that captures, organizes, and transfers business practice knowledge to project stakeholders to help them excel in today's rapidly changing business world. The CBP harnesses project management knowledge and expertise and integrates it into a variety of products to deliver fact-based and timely information through publications, research, benchmarking forums, and the web.
http://www.cbponline.com/
Information Technology Infrastructure Library
ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is a set of books that comprehensively and systematically present best practices in all phases of the management of an information system including Service Level agreements (SLA).
Each book describes the "infrastructure" -- the hardware, software, computer related communications, documentation, skills, and processes -- required to support one activity of managing an information system. Each book covers a function or aspect of information technology management, providing cross-references to the other books. Together the books form a unique reference set for the management of installed software.
The Library was produced by CCTA, the Government Center for Information Systems, in consultation with government and industry in the United Kingdom.
http://www.softwaremanagement.com/
IT Infrastructure Library - United Kingdom Cabinet Office publications
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is the industry
standard for comprehensive documentation of best practice for IT Service management. Used by many hundreds of organizations around the world, a whole ITIL philosophy has grown up around the guidance contained within the ITIL books.
ITIL consists of a series of books giving guidance on the provision of quality IT services, and on the accommodation and environmental facilities needed to support information technology. ITIL has been developed in recognition of organizations growing dependency on IT and embodies best practices for IT service management.
At present there are 49 ITIL titles. Ten of the books are considered to be core ITIL titles, which are at present being restructured into the new Service Support and Service Delivery sets. There are three other sets currently in development. Information regarding ITIL can be found at
http://www.itil.com/index.htm
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