The IT Skeptic - Comments for "itSMF announce all seven global ITIL Version 3 launch events only weeks away so book now!"

No you're not being rude.

skeptic — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:23:01 +0000

No you're not being rude. call me out any time. I don't think I'm obsessed. I am, in effect, a journalist. Not that I chose to be but that is another story. There is a huge vacuum of open discussion and debate around ITIL that this blog seeks to fill. The Refresh is the big story, the topic on everybody's lips right now, so i report it. Or maybe I'm obsessed. Let the readers judge.

I'd like to get onto some other topics actually but OGC and itSMF keep alternately leaving this void and then providing me all this great material. I look forward very much to the ITIL world becoming so boring that I can look at other topics on this blog, and go do a few other projects that might pay better :-)

You imply that i am delving into unimportant minutae. Tell that to the Japanese and the Canadians. I for one would be interested in the reasoning behind the change and I bet they would too. It's called "transparency".

Your observations on road show dates

Visitor — Wed, 16 May 2007 01:00:02 +0000

Wow! You have a lot of time on your hands. Please excuse me if I am being rude, but don't you think you're a bit obssesed with the ITIL Refresh project?

Not sure what you are seeing

skeptic — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:07:44 +0000

Not sure what you are seeing Roccster

The picture in question looks harmless to me. it is a cartoon of two people with thought bubbles that say "?" and a third thinking "!"

Hi - please scan and send me

Ian Clayton — Tue, 08 May 2007 10:43:47 +0000

Hi - please scan and send me a copy... I'm in the US

Another scaring fact...

roccster — Mon, 07 May 2007 11:16:18 +0000

For all of you ITIL/itSMF sceptics out there, here is anothere scaring fact.

To be able to experience the fact in all of it´s glory you will actually have to get a copy of the magazine: SERVICE TALK January 2007 (this is not an add, do not buy the magazine, just get hold of a copy). Then you need to open page 11. If you can´t get hold of this magazine I will be happy to scan that page for you and mail it, just let me know.

On the top right corner you have a picture. Look at that picture and think about it for a moment or two.

It´s not a funny picture, it´s a horrible picture. That image, in it´s simplicity, is manifesting all that ITIL stands for. It confirms all that we, as sceptisists, have allready figured out, and it scares me. It scares me alot.

/ roccster

ITIL v3 Launch (London)

The ITIL Imp — Sun, 06 May 2007 19:12:06 +0000

Hi Skeptic,

I will be present at the London launch (shame it isn't convenient for you, was hoping to meet you one day!). My motivation for going is fourfold really. The two reasons stated above as well as:
3) Hearing from the author's mouths themselves about any changes since I saw them at the itSMF conference.
4) Hopefully some good material for my blog :)

Until next time.

The ITIL Imp

I will be there!

ITIL3 — Sun, 06 May 2007 17:37:15 +0000

The London event is sold out, so will most of the other events - the question we should be asking is WHO will attend. Will it be all vendors who are grasping for information to leverage in products or practitioners? Will the mix be different per location?

I will be there and I will be proud to say that I have been.

"I was there" boast potential

skeptic — Sat, 05 May 2007 23:23:58 +0000

Good point. I think the main reasons to attend are (1) networking and (2) "I was there" boast potential. I bet each person will present for the usual 30-45-60 minutes in which time one can say at most three things of any substance.

And I wouldn't hold your breath for any significant changes between QA and publication - I reckon there simply wasn't time for anything but minor edits

Announcements

PELIJN — Sat, 05 May 2007 22:50:46 +0000

Does it really make sense to go to a marketing session around ITIL v3, I just would like to read the final books. I am still hoping the final published version will be better than the Service ... book I did a QA for in January... That did not make me very happy

Regards
Peter Lijnse