Help us build the next generation of ITAM governance framework

The framework replaces PITAM and will become the reference model behind LISA’s curriculum.  

At this stage it is in draft format. It is built from the ground up based on the ISO/IEC 19770-1 ITAM standard, but it is also an evolution of PITAM in a number of important ways:  

1) It deals in definitive outcomes, not woolly descriptions. 

Best-practice models are often abstract. Here, every component is a specific thing to achieve: a binary outcome you have either done or you have not. And you can predict and measure the business value of doing it. The framework is built of 25 such outcomes. 

2) It is built on the international standard, with one deliberate addition. 

Twenty-four of the 25 are drawn directly from ISO/IEC 19770-1. The twenty-fifth is new, and to my mind the most important: managing the value of IT asset management itself. Most frameworks leave that value implicit. Here it sits at the centre, a thing to be planned, measured and grown like any other. Read more on the value loop here > 

3) It is modular, because organisations have different priorities  

One chasing cost control needs different components than one facing a regulatory audit. So the framework is built to be customised around the summit an organisation chooses to climb. Every climb is different, but everyone routes through the same Basecamp: trustworthy data. Each summit is a defined subset of the 25 things; full ISO conformance is not a summit in itself, but the sum of climbing them all. 

Anyone who has worked with PITAM will recognise twelve of the twenty-five. I include a mapping of roughly how the topics will transfer – but importantly this is not a reworking but built from new.  

I have also included a draft version of the proposed roadmap for developing the new framework. Starting with basecamp – trustworthy data.