Today at the itSMF International Chapter Leadership meeting in Barcelona Spain, it was announced that today was the timeline for the withdrawal of ITIL v2. The announcement followed the review of the results from the joint survey undertaken by the itSMF International on behalf of the UK OGC.
Based on the feedback of the community the OGC announced that removal of the version 2 (exams and publications) to be completed globally by 30 June 2011. The removal will take place in a phased approach with all with all language variants of individual qualifications and publications being removed at the same time.
Education Dates:
- - V2 Foundation to cease 30 June 2010
- - V2 Manager to cease 31 August 2010
- - V2 Practitioner and Foundation Bridge to cease 31 Dec 2010
(All of the above will be available for re-sits until 30 June 2011)
Publication Dates:
- - Service Support publications will be removed on 30 June 2011
- - Service Delivery publications will be removed on 30 June 2011
- - Availability of all other V2 publications to be considered as reprinting required with the proviso that they will be removed no later than 30 June 2011.
This announcement has been some time in coming and followed the availability of ITIL V3 publications and education in multiple languages which the itSMF International and Chapters have been heavily promoting. This announcement also reflects the examination data which had for some time identified that the majority of examinations are now based on V3. This data is representative of the majority of organizations that I meet with that are on their ITIL journeys, with the vast majority already in the process of adopting aspects of V3.
By the way, if you want to provide the OGC with a comment please do not hesitate to drop a comment on the blog, I will of course pass all comments back to the OGC.
To find out more, the OGC press release is available at http://www.ogc.gov.uk/itil_ogc_withdrawal_of_itil_version2.asp