IT Paradigmology with Mark Smalley
Posted by webmaster 23 August 2009
On Friday afternoon Mark Smalley of the asl bisl foundation provided CIN members with an eclectic and enlightening session covering numerous topics but with a primary focus on change management in the IT world, looking at the ASL and BiSL frameworks. Mark, who is based in the Netherlands is currently on a hectic South East Asian speaking tour and this was last stop prior to the next engagement in Singapore.
The bulk of the session was dedicated to a brief overview of the work of the asl bisl foundation and strategies for not only developing up IT developers, but also developing the capability of users.
Application Services library (ASL) is a methodology used in the IT industry. ASL is a standard for processes within Application Management (the discipline of producing and maintaining information systems and applications).
BiSL (Previously known as Business Information Service Management Library) is a framework used for functional management and information management. BiSL is a public domain standard since 2005, goverened by the ASL BiSL foundation. The framework describes a standard for processes within business information management at the strategy, management and operations level. BiSL is closely related to the ITIL and ASL framework.
The main difference between these frameworks is that ITIL and ASL focus on the supply side of information, whereas BiSL focuses on the demand side. To assist those wishing to learn more about these frameworks we have included links to free publications on the ASL & BiSL along with a link to BiSL books and ASL books.
Many thanks to Mark for what was a very entertaining session replete with insights and video clips and thanks for reminding us that one of the main problems facing us in today’s complex world is our own pre-conceived ideas about things.
August 24th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Eclectic was certainly the word here- very enjoyable…