Saturday, February 16, 2008

ITIL v3
In my quest to further my career, I have spent the last 3 days doing the ITIL v3 foundation course, ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) is the standard IT in all organisations are keen to adhere to.
This is all good learning procedures in a classroom, but trying to put it into practice is another thing.

I also took the exam which requires 26/40 to pass. I took 2 mocks and got 28 on both (dangerously close).

We were told by the lecturer, passing the foundation course means an extra £2k on your salary (£15-£20k if you get the diploma). Who in their company would get an extra £2k as simple as that.

As my role as Service Desk Manager (along with a ton of other stuff "The Goona" and "The Conster" give me, I'll if I can put (some of) ITIL into practice

By doing the course, I have learned I am also the following,
  • Service Level Manager
  • Problem Manager
  • Operations Manager
I'd say that's a £100k salary easily, but I wouldn't take the drop...


I'll find out if I passed in a few weeks time.

1 comment:

Bigfootcookie said...

I passed and still have the full diploma, version 1.old, back in the day (1996).

RMG rewarded my effort of 2 weeks of course, followed by 2, 3 hour closed book written exams I had to travel to London to take with a big fat fuck all.