| ITIL Version 3 Glossary A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | W | X | Y | Z |
A | B
Acceptance |
Access Management |
Account Manager |
Accounting |
Accredited |
ACD |
Active Monitoring |
Activity |
Agent |
Agreed Service Time |
Agreement |
Alert |
AMIS |
Analytical Modelling |
Application |
Application Management |
Application Portfolio |
Application Sizing |
Architecture |
ASP |
Assembly |
Assessment |
Asset |
Asset Management |
Asset Register |
Attribute |
Audit |
Authority Matrix |
Availability |
Availability Management |
Availability Plan |
Backup |
Balanced Scorecard |
Baseline |
Benchmark |
Benchmarking |
Best Practice |
Brainstorming |
BSI |
Budget |
Budgeting |
Build |
Build Environment |
Business |
Bus Cap Mgmt |
Business Case |
Bus Continuity Mgmt |
Bus. Capacity Plan |
Business Customer |
Business Impact Analysis |
Business Objective |
Business Operations |
Business Perspective |
Business Process |
Bus Relationship Mgmt |
Bus Relationship Mgr |
Business Service |
BSM |
Business Unit
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C
Call |
Call Centre |
Call Type |
Capability |
Capacity |
Capacity Mgmt |
Capacity Plan |
Capital Budgeting |
Capital Expenditure |
Capital Item |
Cap Mgmt Info Syst |
Capitalization |
Category |
Certification |
CFIA |
Change |
Change Advisory Board |
Change Case |
Change History |
Change Management |
Change Model |
Change Record |
Change Schedule |
Change Window |
Charging |
Chronological Analysis |
CI Type |
Classification |
Client |
Close Looped |
Closed |
Closure |
CMDB |
CMM |
CMMI |
CMS |
Coase's Law |
COBIT |
Code of Practice |
Cold Standby |
CONOPTS |
COTS |
Compliance |
Component |
Component Cap Mgmt (CCM) |
Component CI |
Concurrency |
Confidentiality |
Configuration |
Configuration Baseline |
Configuration Control |
Configuration Identification |
Configuration Item (CI) |
Configuration Management |
Configuration Record |
Configuration Structure |
Continual Serv. Improvement (CSI) |
Continuous Availability |
Continuous Operation |
Contract |
Contract Portfolio |
Control |
Control (CI) |
Control Perspective |
Control Processes |
Core Service |
Core Serv. Package (CSP) |
Cost |
Cost Benefit Analysis |
Cost Centre |
Cost Effectiveness |
Cost Element |
Cost Mgmt |
Cost Type |
Cost Unit |
Countermeasure |
Course Corrections |
CRAMM |
Crisis Management |
Critical Success Factor (CSF) |
Culture |
Customer |
Customer Portfolio |
CTI
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D | E | F | G | H
Dashboard |
DIKW Hierarchy |
Definitive Media Library (DML) |
Deliverable |
Demand Management |
Dependency |
Deployment |
Depreciation |
Design |
Detection |
Development |
Development Environment |
Diagnosis |
Diagnostic Script |
Differential Charging |
Direct Cost |
Directory Service |
Do Nothing |
Document |
Downtime |
Driver |
Early Life Support |
Economies of Scale |
Economies of Scope |
Effectiveness |
Efficiency |
Emergency Change |
Emergency CAB |
Encapsulation |
Environment |
Error |
Escalation |
eSCM-SP |
Estimation |
Evaluation |
Event |
Event Management |
Exception Report |
Expanded Incident Lifecycle |
External Customer |
External Metric |
External Service Provider |
External Sourcing |
Facilities Management |
Failure |
FMEA |
Fast Recovery |
Fault |
Fault Tolerance |
FTA |
Financial Management |
First-line Support |
Fishbone Diagram |
Fit for Purpose |
Fixed Cost |
Fixed Facility |
Follow the Sun |
Framework |
Fulfilment |
Function |
Functional Escalation |
Gap Analysis |
Governance |
Gradual Recovery |
Guideline |
Help Desk |
Hierarchic Escalation |
High Availability |
Hot Standby
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I | J | K | L | M
Identity |
Immediate Recovery |
Impact |
Incident |
Incident Management |
Incident Record |
Indirect Cost |
ISM |
ISMS |
Incident Lifecycle |
Information Security Mgmt |
Information Security Policy |
Information Technology (IT) |
Infrastructure Service |
Insourcing |
Integrity |
IVR |
Intermediate Recovery |
Internal Customer |
Internal Metric |
IRR |
Internal Service Provider |
Internal Sourcing |
ISO |
ISP |
Invocation |
Ishikawa Diagram |
ISO 9000 |
ISO 9001 |
ISO/IEC 17799 |
ISO/IEC 20000 |
ISO/IEC 27001 |
IT Directorate |
IT Infrastructure |
IT Operations |
IT Operations Control |
IT Operations Management |
IT Service |
ITSCM |
IT Service Continuity Plan |
ITSM |
ITSM Forum |
IT Service Provider |
IT Steering Group (ISG) |
ITIL |
Job Description |
Job Scheduling |
Kano |
Kepner - Tregoe |
KPI |
Knowledge Base |
Knowledge Management |
Known Error |
KEDB |
Known Error Record |
Lifecycle |
Line of Service (LOS) |
Live |
Live Environment |
Maintainability |
Major Incident |
Managed Services |
Management Information |
Management of Risk (MoR) |
Management System |
Manual Workaround |
Marginal Cost |
Market Space |
Maturity |
Maturity Level |
MTBF |
MTBSI |
MTTR |
MTRS |
Metric |
Middleware |
Mission Statement |
Model |
Modelling |
Monitor Control Loop |
Monitoring
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N | O | P | Q | R
Net Present Value |
Notional Charging |
Objective |
OGC |
Operate |
Operation |
Operational |
Operational Cost |
Operational Expenditure (OPEX) |
OLA |
Open Looped |
Operations Bridge |
Opportunity Cost |
Optimize |
Organization |
Outcome |
Outsourcing |
Overhead |
Pain Value Analysis |
Pareto Principle |
Partnership |
Passive Monitoring |
PBA |
Percentage Utilization |
Performance |
Performance Anatomy |
Performance Management |
Pilot |
Plan |
PDCA |
Planned Downtime |
Planning |
PMBOK |
Policy |
Portable Facility |
PIR |
Practice |
PFS |
Pricing |
PRINCE2 |
Priority |
Proactive Monitoring |
Proactive Problem Management |
Problem |
Problem Management |
Problem Record |
Procedure |
Process |
Process Control |
Process Manager |
Process Owner |
Production Environment |
Profit Centre |
Pro Forma |
Programme |
Project |
PSO |
Qualification |
Quality |
Quality Assurance (QA) |
QMS |
Quick Win |
RACI |
Reactive Monitoring |
Reciprocal Arrangement |
Record |
Recovery |
Recovery Option |
RPO |
RTO |
Redundancy |
Relationship |
Release |
Release and Deployment Mgmt |
Release Identification |
Release Mgmt |
Release Process |
Release Record |
Release Unit |
Release Window |
Reliability |
Remediation |
Repair |
RFC |
Request Fulfilment |
Requirement |
Resilience |
Resolution |
Resolution Processes |
Resource |
Response Time |
Responsiveness |
Restore |
Retire |
ROI |
Return to Normal |
Review |
Rights |
Risk |
Risk Appetite |
Risk Assessment |
Risk Management |
Risk Register |
Role |
Rollout |
Root Cause |
Root Cause Analysis |
Running Costs
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S
Scalability |
Scope |
Second-line Support |
Security |
Security Mgmt |
Separation of Concerns (SoC) |
Server |
Service |
Service Acceptance Criteria (SAC) |
Service Analytics |
Service Asset |
SACM |
Service Capacity Management (SCM) |
Service Capability |
Service Catalogue |
Service Continuity Management |
Service Contract |
Service Culture |
Service Design |
Service Design Package |
Service Desk |
Service Failure Analysis (SFA) |
Service Hours |
SIP |
Service Investment Analysis |
SKMS |
Service Level |
SLA |
Service Level Mgmt (SLM) |
SL Package (SLP) |
SL Requirement (SLR) |
Service Level Target |
Service Lifecycle |
Service Maintenance Objective |
Service Mgmt |
Service Lifecycle |
Service Manager |
Service Operation |
Service Owner |
Service Package |
Service Pipeline |
Service Portfolio |
SPM |
Service Potential |
Service Provider |
Service Provider Interface (SPI) |
Service Provisioning Optimization (SPO) |
SOA |
Service Request (SR) |
Service Sourcing |
Service Strategy |
Service Transition |
Service Utility |
Service Validation and Testing (VT) |
Service Valuation |
Service Warranty |
Serviceability |
Shift |
Simulation Modelling |
Single Point of Contact |
Single Point of Failure (SPOF) |
SLAM Chart |
SMART |
Snapshot |
Specification |
Stakeholder |
Standard |
Standard Change |
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) |
Standby |
Statement of requirements (SOR) |
Status |
Status Accounting |
Storage Mgmt |
Strategic |
Strategy |
Super User |
Supplier |
Supplier and Contract Database (SCD) |
Supplier Mgmt |
Supply Chain |
Support Group |
Support Hours |
Supporting Service |
SWOT Analysis |
System |
System Mgmt
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T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Tactical |
Technical Mgmt |
Technical Observation (TO) |
Technical Service |
Technical Support |
Tension Metrics |
Terms of Reference (TOR) |
Test |
Test Environment |
Third Party |
Third-line Support |
Threat |
Threshold |
Throughput |
TCO |
TCU |
TQM |
Transaction |
Transition |
Transition Planning and Support |
Trend Analysis |
Tuning |
Type I Service Provider |
Type II Service Provider |
Type III Service Provider |
Underpinning Contract (UC) |
Unit Cost |
Urgency |
Usability |
Use Case |
User |
User Profile (UP) |
Utility |
Validation |
Value Capture |
Value Chain |
Value for Money |
Value on Investment (VOI) |
Value Network |
Variable Cost |
Variable Cost Dynamics |
Variance |
Verification |
Verification and Audit |
Version |
Virtualization |
Vision |
VBF |
Vulnerability |
Warm Standby |
Warranty |
Work in Progress (WIP) |
Work Instruction |
Workaround |
Workload
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