Directory of blog entries

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"Good IT Service Management is simply not possible without” a CMDB? Balls! 2007-06-20 3
"IT has no respect for nor understanding of customers and users" 2008-06-20 0
"ITIL 2011" will replace "ITIL 2007" on 29 July 2011. V3 is dead, long live V3 2011-06-23 6
#SMFlashbook My top tip for building a service catalogue 2013-10-25 2
10 other things you should know about ITIL 2006-11-19 0
10 Things I don't get either 2009-04-18 0
2007 is the year when PC and TV merge. 2007-01-10 0
25... no, 26 errors you need to know about in the ITIL Version 3 books 2008-03-27 1
5 easy steps to implement ITIL V3 2009-10-21 1
5 questions for John M. Willis 2008-10-29 0
5 Tips For Developing An ITSM Strategic Road Map 2009-11-02 0
6 years old and still growing 2012-05-16 0
a back-of-an-envelope re-analysis of Forrester and BMC's own CMDB research 2008-08-14 1
A better name for IT is "Business Improvement and Information" 2008-06-07 4
A Brief Review of Creating and Driving Service Excellence 2011-11-30 0
A bulletin from the castle 2013-05-13 1
A case study in bad customer service 2013-01-12 4
A CMDB is like a Swiss bank account 2010-03-07 1
A cool look at ITIL 2006-05-15 2
A Cynefin model of ITSM support levels 2015-10-11 1
A dozen IT Service Management and ITIL Forums 2007-12-15 4
A few of our wealthier readers might now consider ITIL Live™ 2009-05-07 0
A few swallows in the Cloud are not altering the landscape 2010-12-11 1
A great article on how technology does not fix process in CMDB 2007-02-08 0
A great new blog to check out 2006-12-02 0
A hat-trick of itSMF conferences - it is all about the local level. 2011-06-14 0
A hot-potato ITIL Refresh session at upcoming bITa USA conference 2007-04-10 0
A hundred users call up and say they can't get emails. One incident or 100? 2009-10-22 0
A key operational feedback loop for DevOps 2017-05-18 3
A layman's definition of Devops 2018-06-06 2
A list of Request Classes to help out ITIL 2009-02-15 8
A little chat about BYOD 2012-07-14 3
A little Christmas gift for readers 2011-12-23 2
A little something as a thank-you for registered readers of this blog 2010-04-26 0
a lot of motherhood considerations presented as a model 2006-11-19 1
A menu is not a service catalogue 2012-05-21 4
A message from the new Chair of itSMF International 2010-02-13 0
a more skeptical attitude toward IT is the right one to have 2006-10-29 0
A new concept goes into over-hype: Agile 2010-08-13 1
A new ITIL V3 online product changes the game 2009-03-18 0
A new look 2012-03-23 1
A new look for the IT Skeptic, and a note on Excessive Technical Fastidiousness or ETF 2008-09-02 1
A new skeptic enters the blogosphere 2009-05-04 2
A nice skeptical ITIL cartoon 2007-07-22 0
A project is a wave in a product structure 2017-09-18 2
A quest for a unified theory of IT management is not a flag of ITSM surrender 2013-02-10 0
A review of Governance of IT 2013-12-21 2
A review of The CMDB Imperative 2010-08-06 1
a scout hall built between a pub and a brothel 2007-09-13 0
A skeptical newcomer to the ITSM blogosphere 2007-05-22 2
A special case crap factoid: the survey that doesn't exist 2011-07-13 0
A special thank-you to all you readers 2007-08-19 0
A standardised work management tool? 2018-11-18 6
A study in governance: comparing Castle ITIL with ISACA 2010-06-09 1
A suggested improvement to itSMF USA Bylaws 2008-06-20 1
A superb piece of IT Skepticism 2007-07-12 1
A tragic piece of spam 2011-01-31 1
A visualisation of how ITIL Version 3 transforms ITIL version 2 2007-05-17 3
A wandering skeptic I've become... 2011-04-04 3
A word about photos 2011-08-27 0
ABC Cafeterias 2009-03-12 2
Abolish the CAB at your peril 2011-12-12 3
About the ITIL Service Owner 2010-08-19 3
Acend Corporate Learning systematically plagiarises copyright content 2009-07-11 1
Acknowledgements 2006-05-16 7
Acoustic shock syndrome – don’t employ nervous anxious people in your call-centre, it will cost you 2007-02-14 1
Advertising to the itSMF keyword 2008-08-18 0
Agile and Lean need Renaissance Man 2011-04-13 0
Agile continual improvement 2019-05-05 1
Agile hasn't jumped the shark, it has just escaped the pond. 2019-10-11 4
Agile is an excuse for chaos? 2015-03-19 1
Agile ITSM 2011-07-20 4
Agile Procurement 2018-11-02 3
Aidan Lawes on ITIL certification 2009-04-08 1
All five IT Skeptic books available on Amazon 2009-04-21 0
Am I wrong about CMDB? 2008-06-16 3
An Alternative to ITIL 2007-05-14 1
An apology to itSMF 2008-07-17 0
An apology to the OGC, the itSMF and the ITIL community from the IT Skeptic 2007-02-26 1
An idea for how to handle incidents as requests 2013-07-03 0
An important DevOps word: toolmakers 2015-09-13 1
An interesting tale of ITIL trademarks 2015-06-06 4
An IT Skeptic book review: Foundations of ITSM based on ITIL V3 2008-05-09 1
An ITIL process is not a unit of work 2014-01-06 2
An ITIL V3 certification exam multiple-choice question debated 2009-07-03 2
An ITSM Expert needs more than ITIL 2009-08-29 4
An oldie but a goodie: software salesman dies and goes to Heaven... 2006-08-31 2
An outage on the IT Skeptic website and why technology hates me 2010-02-23 1
Analyst crap factoids as memes: nobody thinks any more 2008-04-12 1
Announcing SkepCoin 2013-04-01 1
Announcing the Inaugural IT Skeptic Awards for 2006 2007-01-01 0
Announcing the IT Skeptic Awards for 2007 2007-12-31 1
Announcing the IT Skeptic's BOKKED: the Body of Knowledge Known Error Database, for ITIL et al 2007-06-22 1
Announcing the IT Skeptic's ITIL Pipe - an ITIL newsfeed 2007-05-02 1
Another blog to watch is Platen - where technology meets common sense 2009-02-09 1
Another chance to meet the IT Skeptic 2008-05-30 1
Another IT Skeptic book available in Russian - what can you do with the IT Skeptic's material? 2010-12-15 0
Another ITIL compliance howler, this one from CA 2006-12-31 0
Another ITIL Examination Institute accredited by APMG 2008-05-12 0
Antonio Valle Salas's Mystery of the 1.1.1 Deleted - was ITIL once "public domain"? 2007-06-04 1
Anybody still visit this blog without being linked to a post from social media? 2019-08-28 13
APMG accredited ITIL examination institute Peoplecert copying intellectual property? 2010-10-20 0
APMG finally let us in on ITIL Certification thinking 2007-05-01 0
APMG got its accreditation back 2008-05-12 3
APMG has our full support 2008-12-09 0
APMG look set for some spectacular acrobatics over ITIL accreditation 2007-10-29 3
Apocalyptic bullshit 2018-03-23 0
Apostrophe Protection Society 2009-12-06 3
Applications closing very soon for roles with itSMF IT Service Management research journal 2008-07-09 1
Are Incident and Complaint different things? 2009-06-08 3
Are training providers experiencing a drop in certification pass rates since ITIL V3 Foundation syllabus was revised? 2009-06-20 3
Are you a member of itSMF? 2007-06-13 1
Are you being paid to read this blog? 2011-09-18 0
Ask your vendor what they mean by ITIL compliant 2006-11-17 2
Attention-seeking declarations of death 2013-09-02 0
Auto-discovery is only a minor consideration for CMDB 2008-07-01 1
Automation is for the best 2019-01-22 22
Availability is all about what they will pay for 2011-06-23 0
Awful support conversations 2009-03-30 2
Axelos and itSMF sign an ITIL agreement to nothing much 2013-11-29 1
Axelos announces a new level of ITIL certification: Practitioner 2015-03-15 0
Axelos are dropping ITIL complementary certifications 2014-11-07 1
AXELOS are on a roll with ITIL and PRINCE2 2013-10-09 0
Axelos are the Official source of DevOps now? 2016-12-10 2
Axelos Consulting Partner (ACP) Programme 2015-03-30 2
Axelos legal bullies on the rampage 2017-02-22 2
Axelos release roadmaps for ITIL and PPM PRINCE2 2013-11-20 1
Axelos selling ITIL? 2015-04-01 3
Batten down the hatches 2008-12-18 0
Be a good netizen: report those Crap Factoids 2008-06-01 2
Be cautious about artificial intelligence 2009-09-24 0
Beetil: a new entrant in the ITSM/ITIL SaaS tools market 2009-02-27 0
Beyond the 7-minute attention span: getting management interested in ITIL (or anything) 2008-02-11 2
Big Brother vs. Big Uncle; the opposing sides of the loss of privacy to security systems 2008-04-15 0
Big Uncle: benevolent security. The positive side of the loss of privacy 2008-04-13 0
Big Uncle: ceding privacy for security in our daily lives 2008-04-20 1
Big Uncle: looking for the needle in the security data haystack 2008-04-26 0
Big uncle: policies and controls for security systems 2008-05-07 0
Big Uncle: the total lack of privacy in electronic communications 2008-04-29 2
Big Uncle: what is “normal” privacy? 2008-04-14 1
Bill the IT guy 2008-09-19 0
Bill the IT Guy Part 2 2008-12-21 0
Binder-chuckers 2011-02-10 0
Blog SLA change and service interruption 2009-02-27 0
Blogs at 10 paces as ITIL service catalogue vendors shoot it out on the web 2008-09-24 1
BMC are ahead of their competitors in ITIL compliance 2009-05-06 1
BMC are at the old bait and switch again over CMDB 2010-07-30 2
BMC, CA, Fujitsu, HP, IBM and Microsoft promise to play nicely over ITIL CMDB. Yeah, right! 2007-02-21 0
BoK Bloat 2011-11-22 0
BOK revisions breaking out all over: PMBOK 4th Edition 2009-04-14 0