A voluntary registry of ITIL-certified practitioners is operated by the ITIL Certification Register. After the initial publication, the number of books quickly grew within ITIL v1 to over 30 volumes. The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) has developed the Framework for ICT Technical Support (FITS) and is based on ITIL, but it is slimmed down for UK primary and secondary schools (which often have very small IT departments).
ICT Deployment provides a framework for the successful management of design, build, test and roll-out (deploy) projects within an overall ICT programme. Divided into manageable stages, the method enables an efficient control of resources. ITIL Incident Management Kpi Proponents believe that using the broader library provides a comprehensive set of guidance to link the technical implementation, operations guidelines and requirements with the strategic management, operations management and financial management of a modern business.
Core Practice (CoPr or "copper") calls for limiting Best Practice to areas where there is a business case for it, and in other areas just do the minimum necessary. A contract could be a support or maintenance agreement, and it should be capable of supporting targets agreed to in service level agreements (SLAs).
Request for Change (RFC): form used to record details of a request for a change and is sent as an input to Change Management by the Change Requestor.