Quality Assurance and ITIL(ITSM)

[Majki]

Hello everybody,
I am new to this forum and ITIL in general. My background is Software Quality Assurance and my new job is to establish Quality Assurance processes within one of the Ontario's provincial Government's ministries. Now, the guy who works next to me is trying to implement ITSM, all modules, from Change Mngmnt etc. Now, analyzing ITSM i noticed that Software Development part is missing, ITSM takes care only of Services but not about development processes. Looking further into the ministries standards, I noticed they use Rational Unified Process as software development methodology.
As I mentioned before, my mission is to establish quality assurance processes within a ministry. What would be my starting point here? I looked into ITIL library and didn't find anything pertaining to Quality Assurance - there's a one book from older library series, back from 1991, called "Quality Management for IT Services" ISBN 0013305559. Would this be a good starting point? Does this book explains how to manage quality assurance for IT services? It also says for this book that it supplements Quality Management Library series, ISBN 0013305699, also from 1991. What are the current ITIL libraries that replaced these two?

Thanks a lot,

Mike

[jpomales]

I may be mistaken, but ITIL per se does not address quality management. You'll have to look elsewhere for that. ITIL does talk about quality when performing the 'Plan-Do-Check-Act' cycle for processes. But a Quality Management process you won't find in ITIL.

You may couple ITIL with other processes, such as ISO:9000 or develop your own.
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[RobRoy47]

The older version one book on QA is still in effect. For much of QA, the trend is to use ISO 9000 series as your guide. As for Software Development, there is in fact an ITIL book on this. There is more to ITIL then Service Support and Delivery.

[Majki]

You're wrong jpomales, take a look at this link: ogc.gov.uk/sdtoolkit/deliveryteam/briefings/businesschange/quality_mgmt.html#whatis
ITIL does talk about Quality Management

I just hoped that the book i mentioned above elaborates more on processes and procedures of Quality Management, more on 'how to' than just 'what'. And in fact, RobRoy47 mentioned ISO9000, i just learned that this first book i mentioned "QM for IT services" uses ISO9000, so I guess not too many things has changed since 1991....
Anyways, I ordered these two books and I'll see how much of help they'll be.
Thanks for you help guys anyways...
Mike

[jpomales]

Thanks for the correction. Always glad to learn something new.
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[tiansiew]

You can take a look at ISO20000 on ITSM which was released recently. This International Standard incorporated the PDCA principle and ITIL best practices. The standard has 2 parts: the requirements and code of practice. You can purchase it online at the ISO website.