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San Francisco 2016: Proceedings - IT4IT Forum

IT4IT™ Forum Members' Meeting

Objective of Meeting

The IT4IT Forum has been established by enterprise customers, IT service providers, and tools vendors to help IT departments address the strategic challenges brought about by the changing IT landscape. It will create and drive the adoption of the IT4IT standard to provide a vendor-neutral Reference Architecture that supports management and execution across the IT Value Chain. The Reference Architecture will enable the provision of data-driven insights that help IT organizations focus on business outcomes while delivering solutions faster and with reduced cost and risk.

The primary purpose of the meeting was to further work of the Forum.

Summary

The meeting saw the successful launch of the Management Guide to the IT4IT Reference Architecture.

The meeting consisted of a series of working group meetings, followed by a meeting of the full Forum to review the outcomes of the working groups and plan future work.

The content working groups continued or started their work on the following topics: Core, IT Financial Management, IT Asset Management, Service Model Management, Model Maturity.

The Core working group, which is responsible for the overall planning and integration of the content working groups, continued the planning for the next version of the Standard. It is currently planned that the next version will be released in October 2016.

The Adoption working group continued to plan activities and information dissemination around the ongoing promotion of the Standard and IT4IT as a whole. As part of these activities, a Speaker Bureau has been created to coordinate external speaking opportunities and potential speakers.

There were several activities related to the development of the IT4IT Certification Program which is currently in development. There was a "Train the Trainers" session which provided the introduction of the people certification material to those training organizations involved in the beta program, and this was followed by a session at which beta participants were able to sit the exam. An initial session on the topic of tool certification was held, and is exploring what would be the most appropriate initial approach to take in this area.

There has been a continued increase in participation in the Forum. In total, there are now approximately 55 companies and 275 individuals participating.

Next Steps

The focus up until the London event will be on the development of the Certification Program, and content for the next version of the Standard.