Directory of blog entries

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The IT Renaissance 2017-09-15 3
The IT Skeptic rates five pineapples 2008-10-20 3
How I manage my time with Google Calendar 2013-07-20 3
How Software Vendors Lie About ITIL Support 2008-08-15 3
IT analysts produce crap - what to look for in analyst "research" 2008-04-09 3
Use verbs to describe services 2015-04-08 3
PRINCE2 2009 refresh spookily familiar to ITIL users 2009-04-06 3
If IT ain’t broke don’t fix it. 2006-06-13 3
ITIL is copyright: use of quotations and extracts 2008-03-06 3
Common sense around ITIL V3 certification paths 2009-06-07 3
Announcing SkepCoin 2013-04-01 3
COBIT 5 taskforce - who will steer the next generation COBIT? 2009-09-18 3
ISACA's strategy and missed opportunity 2014-11-27 3
Real ITSM group on LinkedIn 2009-02-24 3
ITIL-Aligned Sharepoint? Nooooooooo!!! 2011-06-26 3
DevOps buzzword bingo 2014-08-04 3
Agile continual improvement 2019-05-05 3
COBIT v5 will reduce number of processes covered to align with ITIL V3 2011-04-01 3
Satyam, Sallie Mae, and call center outsourcing 2009-04-06 3
Why companies change their ITSM tool 2017-03-10 3
The internet brings middle class capitalist socialism 2009-06-02 3
Great DevOps articles 2016-08-18 3
The IT Skeptic has dropped anonymity: identity revealed 2007-08-16 3
Right now my organisation's involvement with ISO/IEC 20000 is: 2008-05-30 3
Using ITIL effectively 2011-10-17 3
CA CMDBf paper oversells the CMDB Federation standard, as predicted 2009-05-20 3
The Craftsman and the Bazaar 2006-10-08 3
ITIL business case: find the money 2008-05-11 3
ITIL snake oil 2008-09-25 3
prISM service management professional certification great in theory flawed in execution 2009-10-28 3
Somebody spat the dummy at itSMF International 2012-01-25 3
Considerations for Multi-Speed IT 2015-05-11 3
How business has failed IT like a bad parent 2011-02-15 3
Progress 2013-07-14 3
Hello to PINK14 and TFT14 attendees 2014-02-14 3
ITIL and ASL: divorced bodies of knowledge. How ITIL V3 failed to ask the experts. 2008-05-26 3
Which ITIL3 books do you use most? Is there a useful subset? 2008-05-10 3
Batten down the hatches 2008-12-18 3
Where does itSMF International get its money from? 2010-03-15 3
IT geeks resistant to change (management): buffalo in a china shop 2009-09-21 3
Riddle me this: matching ITIL theory to the real world 2011-10-21 3
what makes a successful blog 2015-02-03 3
Should you spend the money on ITIL V3 certification? 2009-03-21 3
Vendors love to promise to play nicely 2013-02-05 3
DevOps messes with your head - reprised 2017-10-16 3
How DevOps messes with your head 2016-03-01 3
My changing mind 2019-01-27 3
Defining terms in Root Cause Analysis - let's be clear what we mean 2008-07-27 3
Aidan Lawes on ITIL certification 2009-04-08 3
Over a million ITILers 2010-09-08 3
On-Demand CMDB reprise 2009-02-09 3
Chicken ITle, robots, and a chessboard 2013-04-08 3
Coming up for 2008 on the IT Skeptic website 2008-02-19 3
The two tribes of DevOps 2016-10-09 3
The ITIL V3 indexes 2009-03-08 3
Dirty Deeds reprise - ITIL is clearly a commercial product not a community work 2010-09-21 3
itSMF publish their list of ITIL Version 3 processes 2007-11-15 3
ITSM is over half a million people 2008-10-22 3
TSO announces ITIL V3 Update mentors, and seems to have abandoned Incremental ITIL 2009-12-08 3
Six Tactics for ITSM to Deal with Agile 2012-06-03 3
A new skeptic enters the blogosphere 2009-05-04 3
Why I can't talk about SFIA to my clients 2010-12-01 3
The twittering classes 2008-11-08 3
Risk taking 2012-12-03 3
ITSM emphasis on aligning underpinning contracts with SLAs 2015-06-17 3
Agile and Lean need Renaissance Man 2011-04-13 3
The Emperor Still Has No Clothes: no evidence for ITIL 2007-02-21 3
The people who determine the future of ITIL training, qualifications and certification 2008-05-29 3
A CMDB is like a Swiss bank account 2010-03-07 3
Official ITIL compliance standard 2009-04-01 3
Which is the best way to buy ITIL version 3: as books, PDFs or online subscription? The IT Skeptic makes a choice. 2008-02-07 3
The Exhibit Hall Optimizer 2010-01-25 3
The sorry tale of Infra: will VMWare kill it? 2012-08-26 3
Solid Harmony: mentions of PRINCE2 in ITIL V3 2008-09-12 3
The OGC ITIL V3 Change Log's greatest hits 2009-09-25 3
the ITIL Squeeze in 2015 2015-01-08 3
A skeptical newcomer to the ITSM blogosphere 2007-05-22 3
Two kanban boards 2017-10-24 3
Chaos drives innovation 2019-05-25 3
The CMDB as a dead elephant, it cannot be done ... NOT 2008-08-03 3
ITIL made easy 2010-09-28 3
Five things to remember about social media titles 2010-07-20 3
Skep Chat 2013/4/16 - talking with Pavels Gurskis 2013-04-16 3
The IT Skeptic Awards for 2008 2009-01-01 3
Agile is an excuse for chaos? 2015-03-19 3
How to contribute to ITIL 2006-10-28 2
A quest for a unified theory of IT management is not a flag of ITSM surrender 2013-02-10 2
6 years old and still growing 2012-05-16 2
OGC re-forms to create DevOps body of knowledge 2016-03-31 2
Changes to user interface 2014-09-17 2
email is not communication 2008-06-25 2
Prince2 2009 plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose 2009-05-02 2
AXELOS are on a roll with ITIL and PRINCE2 2013-10-09 2
is TSO undercutting itSMF for book sales of ITIL Version 3? 2007-06-20 2
Kill the CAB some more 2019-05-12 2
a back-of-an-envelope re-analysis of Forrester and BMC's own CMDB research 2008-08-14 2
CMDB federation - making a dead elephant dance 2009-07-29 2
Why are the analysts dumping IT Service Desk 2011-04-20 2
An apology to the OGC, the itSMF and the ITIL community from the IT Skeptic 2007-02-26 2
Vendors involved in itSMF: good for ITIL or not? 2008-05-26 2
The book Owning ITIL is now available on Kindle 2010-09-13 2
The ITIL Experience is subjective 2010-11-02 2
Two questions to ask 2017-04-04 2
Proliferation of ITIL V3 introductions and pocketbooks 2009-10-22 2
What ARE Microsoft up to? Patents on RSS, CMDB, IT operations... Can they get away with this? 2006-12-22 2
ITIL is not alone 2009-03-26 2
Don't run IT as a business, run it as part of the business 2011-03-08 2
The Official Introduction to the ITIL Service Lifecycle shipping as planned 2007-08-30 2
For your organisation (or client) do you think "IT is unable to specify the Value required by the business"? 2008-09-16 2
ITIL training fun and games at itSMFUK conference - and an end to competition? 2011-11-02 2
Blog SLA change and service interruption 2009-02-27 2
ITSM Watch reaches new skeptical heights on CMDB 2008-10-28 2
The ERP for IT fallacy 2012-12-13 2
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery 2011-10-08 2
That which cannot be measured... 2014-09-26 2
EasyVista HIGH danger Crap Factoid alert 2010-11-30 2
Don't swim against the tide: ten alternatives to itSMF for ITIL practitioners 2007-10-12 2
Don't get het up about ITIL V3 qualifications scheme; it is still a work in progress 2007-06-21 2
sample Business Service Catalogues are generally hideous 2010-12-23 2
ITIL is the dominant language of ITSM 2014-07-06 2
Someone should tell the OGC and TSO bookshops about the ITIL Refresh 2007-02-27 2
In defense of ITILista 2010-09-14 2
Our domain name is changing 2006-07-22 2
Who now controls ITIL? 2009-05-25 2
TFT12 virtual ITSM conference 2012-12-08 2
Binder-chuckers 2011-02-10 2
The future of itSMF International 2014-03-04 2
Define ITIL for the IT layman 2008-02-15 2
The CMDB Federation is a brilliant piece of vendor marketing smokescreen 2009-01-15 2
Lies, damned lies and statistics: adoption of ITIL 2007-08-31 2
ITSM Portal 2009-09-30 2
The value and ROI of ITIL? It is not what you may think. 2011-11-05 2
The madness mounts. When will the CMDB reality check come? 2006-10-29 2
ITIL is the hitchhiker's guide, COBIT is the encyclopaedia 2007-12-07 2
Limiting the Crowd to their own time at their own expense: the open community's distate for commerce 2008-11-11 2
How to dominate the itSMF Board. Perks for the Global Members 2009-12-10 2
Release management: landing airplanes 2014-10-16 2
ITIL exam transparency 2010-12-01 2
Sizzling criticism of the ITIL Version 3 Foundation exam 2007-10-14 2
Merry Christmas, ITIL works! 2009-12-24 2
Headroom 2019-05-15 2
Configuration Management is a process not a thing 2010-10-24 2
Questioning the tenets of ITIL 2011-05-01 2
Controlling Application Development 2008-05-27 2
BOK revisions breaking out all over: PMBOK 4th Edition 2009-04-14 2
Public service 2010-09-29 2
The Chicken ITles are at work on IT project success rates 2014-08-15 2
The future of IT is Governance, Service and Assurance: The Seventh Vision revised 2008-03-29 2
CMDB music to my ears 2010-03-23 2
the relative cost of itSMF conferences 2009-06-19 2