Directory of blog entries

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COBIT 5 taskforce - who will steer the next generation COBIT? 2009-09-18 3
COBIT 5 draft Design document available for public comment 2010-03-23 3
COBIT 5 copyright terms confirmed. And the name may be used. 2012-05-08 5
CMM is back to front 2010-11-23 4
CMDBf ...um...explained 2009-03-05 2
CMDB: what does it really mean 2011-01-12 5
CMDB's Dirty Little Secret 2009-07-09 4
CMDB music to my ears 2010-03-23 2
CMDB is like a linked digital phonebook, and just as pointless for most 2011-09-22 5
CMDB is crazy talk 2010-12-19 3
CMDB for free 2008-08-27 3
CMDB federation - making a dead elephant dance 2009-07-29 2
CMDB and CMS – the industry-created myth 2010-01-25 4
Cloud solves everything in bi-modal ... not. Cloud is one small piece of DevOps 2016-05-01 2
Cloud is a distraction to IT's day job 2010-12-13 4
Cloud Common Sense 2009-05-03 5
Cloned logos 2011-03-02 2
Climate change 2018-10-10 5
Clever marketing 2008-09-21 6
Civilised behaviour in decline on the internet 2009-12-17 4
Citizens unite! Assert your right to call the latest version of ITIL what you like: 2011-08-18 2
CIO Asia magazine criticises the IT Skeptic's comments 2007-03-12 2
Christmas is coming 2009-11-26 2
Choose your Major Incident Manager for who they are not what they are 2010-06-13 4
Chokey the Chimp turns rockstar 2010-08-03 1
Chokey The Chimp has a fan page 2011-02-22 2
Chilling condemnation of those selling abstract deliverables 2010-04-19 7
Chicken ITle, robots, and a chessboard 2013-04-08 3
Chicken ITle calls out the end of Service Desk 2013-03-27 6
Chaos drives innovation 2019-05-25 3
Changing from ITIL will be like metrication 2009-11-07 3
Changes to user interface 2014-09-17 2
Change to the way this blog works: BOKKEs displayed 2008-03-14 1
Change the People 2009-05-23 6
Change goes away 2017-05-28 4
Challenging the operational rites 2016-06-25 3
Challenge the level of ceremony in process 2018-06-05 2
Chalk and Cheese continued: ISACA vs itSMF 2010-01-20 4
Catalogue yourselves as an Information Service Provider 2010-12-11 3
Castle ITIL really is so insular and parochial it is laughable 2008-07-04 2
Castle ITIL opens a window: itSMFI continues admirable policy of communicating 2010-02-23 4
Castle ITIL further degrade the standards of ITIL V3 certification and training 2010-06-27 6
Carpe diem 2009-10-04 4
Call for authors and reviewers for the ITIL V3 Refresh refresh 2009-10-28 2
CA CMDBf paper oversells the CMDB Federation standard, as predicted 2009-05-20 3
C'mon, confess to the world! You're just an ITIL Learner. 2007-07-21 1
Buzzword bingo 2013-09-16 2
Buy books this Christmas 2010-11-24 2
Business case: if you can't find the money 2008-05-13 3
Busines cases are so simple: give the decisionmaker what they want 2006-12-09 1
Building complex people systems 2008-08-20 3
Building an ITIL CMDB is easy and cheap 2008-08-26 2
Brother ISACA 2007-09-13 3
British Government Cabinet Office is selling ITIL and Prince2 2012-11-01 2
Bringing Humanity to Work 2019-09-14 3
Breaking the iron triangle of faster better cheaper 2017-02-08 4
Breaking news: APMG to accredit COBIT5 training industry. Fort COBIT? 2012-08-16 2
Botchagalupe is a devops believer 2011-11-06 3
Booyaaa!! COBIT User Guide for Service Managers now available 2009-04-08 2
Book(s) review: the Key Element Guides 2010-11-28 2
Book review: the Phoenix Project 2013-01-22 28
Book review: IT That Matters. Business porn. 2012-09-24 2
Book review: Defining IT Success Through The Service Catalog, and some other catalogue books 2012-12-23 4
Book review: "I Think Something is Missing From ITIL" by Ian Clayton, reviewed by the IT Skeptic 2007-02-05 5
Book Review - "IT Service Management from Hell! Based on Not-ITIL®" 2007-04-04 1
BOK revisions breaking out all over: PMBOK 4th Edition 2009-04-14 2
BoK Bloat 2011-11-22 2
BMC, CA, Fujitsu, HP, IBM and Microsoft promise to play nicely over ITIL CMDB. Yeah, right! 2007-02-21 1
BMC are at the old bait and switch again over CMDB 2010-07-30 4
BMC are ahead of their competitors in ITIL compliance 2009-05-06 3
Blogs at 10 paces as ITIL service catalogue vendors shoot it out on the web 2008-09-24 2
Blog SLA change and service interruption 2009-02-27 2
Binder-chuckers 2011-02-10 2
Bill the IT Guy Part 2 2008-12-21 1
Bill the IT guy 2008-09-19 2
Big Uncle: what is “normal” privacy? 2008-04-14 2
Big Uncle: the total lack of privacy in electronic communications 2008-04-29 3
Big uncle: policies and controls for security systems 2008-05-07 1
Big Uncle: looking for the needle in the security data haystack 2008-04-26 1
Big Uncle: ceding privacy for security in our daily lives 2008-04-20 2
Big Uncle: benevolent security. The positive side of the loss of privacy 2008-04-13 1
Big Brother vs. Big Uncle; the opposing sides of the loss of privacy to security systems 2008-04-15 1
Beyond the 7-minute attention span: getting management interested in ITIL (or anything) 2008-02-11 3
Beetil: a new entrant in the ITSM/ITIL SaaS tools market 2009-02-27 2
Be cautious about artificial intelligence 2009-09-24 2
Be a good netizen: report those Crap Factoids 2008-06-01 3
Batten down the hatches 2008-12-18 3
Axelos selling ITIL? 2015-04-01 5
Axelos release roadmaps for ITIL and PPM PRINCE2 2013-11-20 3
Axelos legal bullies on the rampage 2017-02-22 4
Axelos Consulting Partner (ACP) Programme 2015-03-30 4
Axelos are the Official source of DevOps now? 2016-12-10 4
AXELOS are on a roll with ITIL and PRINCE2 2013-10-09 2
Axelos are dropping ITIL complementary certifications 2014-11-07 3
Axelos announces a new level of ITIL certification: Practitioner 2015-03-15 2
Axelos and itSMF sign an ITIL agreement to nothing much 2013-11-29 4
Awful support conversations 2009-03-30 4
Availability is all about what they will pay for 2011-06-23 1
Automation is for the best 2019-01-22 26
Auto-discovery is only a minor consideration for CMDB 2008-07-01 2
Attention-seeking declarations of death 2013-09-02 2
Ask your vendor what they mean by ITIL compliant 2006-11-17 3
Are you being paid to read this blog? 2011-09-18 1
Are you a member of itSMF? 2007-06-13 2
Are training providers experiencing a drop in certification pass rates since ITIL V3 Foundation syllabus was revised? 2009-06-20 5
Are Incident and Complaint different things? 2009-06-08 5
Applications closing very soon for roles with itSMF IT Service Management research journal 2008-07-09 2
Apostrophe Protection Society 2009-12-06 4
Apocalyptic bullshit 2018-03-23 2
APMG look set for some spectacular acrobatics over ITIL accreditation 2007-10-29 4
APMG has our full support 2008-12-09 2
APMG got its accreditation back 2008-05-12 4
APMG finally let us in on ITIL Certification thinking 2007-05-01 1
APMG accredited ITIL examination institute Peoplecert copying intellectual property? 2010-10-20 2
Anybody still visit this blog without being linked to a post from social media? 2019-08-28 14
Antonio Valle Salas's Mystery of the 1.1.1 Deleted - was ITIL once "public domain"? 2007-06-04 1
Another ITIL Examination Institute accredited by APMG 2008-05-12 1
Another ITIL compliance howler, this one from CA 2006-12-31 1
Another IT Skeptic book available in Russian - what can you do with the IT Skeptic's material? 2010-12-15 2
Another chance to meet the IT Skeptic 2008-05-30 2
Another blog to watch is Platen - where technology meets common sense 2009-02-09 2
Announcing the IT Skeptic's ITIL Pipe - an ITIL newsfeed 2007-05-02 1
Announcing the IT Skeptic's BOKKED: the Body of Knowledge Known Error Database, for ITIL et al 2007-06-22 2
Announcing the IT Skeptic Awards for 2007 2007-12-31 2
Announcing the Inaugural IT Skeptic Awards for 2006 2007-01-01 1
Announcing SkepCoin 2013-04-01 3
Analyst crap factoids as memes: nobody thinks any more 2008-04-12 2
An outage on the IT Skeptic website and why technology hates me 2010-02-23 3
An oldie but a goodie: software salesman dies and goes to Heaven... 2006-08-31 4
An ITSM Expert needs more than ITIL 2009-08-29 5
An ITIL V3 certification exam multiple-choice question debated 2009-07-03 4
An ITIL process is not a unit of work 2014-01-06 4
An IT Skeptic book review: Foundations of ITSM based on ITIL V3 2008-05-09 2
An interesting tale of ITIL trademarks 2015-06-06 6
An important DevOps word: toolmakers 2015-09-13 3
An idea for how to handle incidents as requests 2013-07-03 1
An apology to the OGC, the itSMF and the ITIL community from the IT Skeptic 2007-02-26 2
An apology to itSMF 2008-07-17 1
An Alternative to ITIL 2007-05-14 2
Am I wrong about CMDB? 2008-06-16 4
All five IT Skeptic books available on Amazon 2009-04-21 1
Aidan Lawes on ITIL certification 2009-04-08 3
Agile Procurement 2018-11-02 5
Agile ITSM 2011-07-20 6
Agile is an excuse for chaos? 2015-03-19 3
Agile hasn't jumped the shark, it has just escaped the pond. 2019-10-11 6
Agile continual improvement 2019-05-05 3
Agile and Lean need Renaissance Man 2011-04-13 3
Advertising to the itSMF keyword 2008-08-18 1
Acoustic shock syndrome – don’t employ nervous anxious people in your call-centre, it will cost you 2007-02-14 2