Directory of blog entries

Title Date Createdsort icon Hits today
The real Shadow IT is not about personal computing 2014-07-17 2
If all I had was a hammer 2014-07-18 2
No we haven't passed the Turing Test 2014-07-20 3
How Operational Readiness should be done 2014-07-23 5
ITSM incident and problem: two names for three things 2014-07-25 4
The IT Skeptic's RealIT Radio 2014-07-26 2
What is the best ITIL service desk tool? 2014-07-27 5
revisiting agile CSI 2014-07-30 4
IT service build is not a factory 2014-08-01 2
DevOps buzzword bingo 2014-08-04 3
The corporate yoke 2014-08-07 2
of course IT is an entity 2014-08-11 1
The Chicken ITles are at work on IT project success rates 2014-08-15 2
where does DevOps work in the enterprise? 2014-08-18 3
Here comes China 2014-08-20 4
The nett result of new technology 2014-08-26 2
How to deal with Shadow IT 2014-08-28 3
Does ISACA offer value to its real members? 2014-09-07 3
Dark IT 2014-09-12 6
ITIL exams have fallen 11% in the last year 2014-09-15 2
Changes to user interface 2014-09-17 2
That which cannot be measured... 2014-09-26 2
Suggestions for RealIT Radio 2014-10-04 1
Dont blame the tool: squeeze the asset, fix the behaviour 2014-10-06 3
Release management: landing airplanes 2014-10-16 2
the Kingdom of SIAM 2014-10-22 5
Tracking citizens 2014-10-23 4
Do you know the professional recognition of individuals in Service Management Institute, a.k.a. prISM? 2014-10-27 2
Software is free like a puppy is free 2014-10-29 5
the state of prISM 2014-10-30 2
The Wright Cycle 2014-11-05 5
Axelos are dropping ITIL complementary certifications 2014-11-07 3
Reflections on DevOps Enterprise conference 2014-11-13 2
IT is not a snowflake 2014-11-17 2
ISACA's strategy and missed opportunity 2014-11-27 3
Define DevOps: What is DevOps? 2014-11-29 7
Uber, big brother, and company use of big data 2014-12-09 5
There is no such thing as NoOps: it is an awful word 2014-12-11 5
Thank-you and Merry Christmas from the IT Skeptic 2014-12-25 2
je suis Charlie 2015-01-08 1
the ITIL Squeeze in 2015 2015-01-08 3
Service Portfolio Management is more important than programme or project portfolio 2015-01-14 5
DevOpsRun: DevOps is great but what about Run? 2015-01-20 7
what makes a successful blog 2015-02-03 3
The design police at Google say they'll push this site down the search rankings 2015-02-24 3
In praise of ITSM engagement models 2015-03-03 2
Windows vs cars 2015-03-06 1
Axelos announces a new level of ITIL certification: Practitioner 2015-03-15 2
DevOps Unicorns Horses and Mules 2015-03-17 4
Agile is an excuse for chaos? 2015-03-19 3
Darwin doesnt justify change 2015-03-19 3
Who owns the system during the go-live warranty period? 2015-03-22 2
Service Management Truths #SMTruths 2015-03-29 3
Axelos Consulting Partner (ACP) Programme 2015-03-30 4
Google enters the fitness device market 2015-03-31 2
Axelos selling ITIL? 2015-04-01 5
Use verbs to describe services 2015-04-08 3
The IT Skeptic's Big Ideas 2015-04-11 5
ITSM success is driven by people and policy 2015-04-19 3
Multi-Speed IT 2015-04-19 8
Whats up with Cyber Resilience? 2015-04-24 2
the internet fosters madness 2015-05-01 7
Copyright issues when using ITIL at the coalface 2015-05-05 2
Considerations for Multi-Speed IT 2015-05-11 3
The IT Skeptic is nine years old today. Thank-you! 2015-05-15 2
Things ITSM consultants hear 2015-05-25 1
The IT Liberation Movement - an IT Renaissance 2015-05-26 6
ISACA Bylaws change 2015 2015-06-03 2
An interesting tale of ITIL trademarks 2015-06-06 6
ITSM emphasis on aligning underpinning contracts with SLAs 2015-06-17 3
Social media discourse degenerates 2015-07-01 3
No such thing as Root Cause 2015-07-09 4
Is a reboot a change? 2015-07-21 3
Who is the IT Skeptic? 2015-08-20 3
Internet discourse is becoming unreal: I can't tell a Poe from an idiot any more 2015-08-22 3
What is a DevOps role 2015-08-27 3
An important DevOps word: toolmakers 2015-09-13 3
The last application lifecycle 2015-09-22 2
A Cynefin model of ITSM support levels 2015-10-11 3
Greetings from Tuatapere 2015-12-30 1
System People Practices Partners Things 2016-02-12 4
The 3Rs: Roles Responsibilities Relationships 2016-02-28 2
How DevOps messes with your head 2016-03-01 3
What to think of the ISACA acquisition of CMMI? 2016-03-06 5
IT Operating Model 2016-03-28 7
OGC re-forms to create DevOps body of knowledge 2016-03-31 2
DevOps is only looking at one of four IT4IT value streams 2016-04-20 5
Cloud solves everything in bi-modal ... not. Cloud is one small piece of DevOps 2016-05-01 2
Service catalogue and request catalogue 2016-05-09 6
The IT Skeptic's tenth birthday post: on Optimism 2016-05-18 2
DevOps and ITIL are both ITSM 2016-05-22 3
Noble Failure 2016-05-29 2
Conflicting principles 2016-06-08 2
Challenging the operational rites 2016-06-25 3
Don't reorg for DevOps 2016-07-02 5
Who owns DevOps? 2016-07-07 5
Reflections on the DevOps Enterprise Summit UK 2016 2016-07-12 5
Great DevOps books to read 2016-07-14 7
Victims of the system 2016-07-23 5
The cult of DevOps 2016-07-30 6
Tech is the easy bit. People are hard. 2016-08-01 2
Two kinds of DevOps: horses don't grow horns 2016-08-13 3
Describe DevOps with CALMS, or I prefer CAFFS 2016-08-17 5
Great DevOps articles 2016-08-18 3
Eating the elephant 2016-08-30 2
How hard can it be? 2016-09-06 2
Railroads don't have a batch size of 1 2016-09-27 2
Get out of the way 2016-09-28 3
The two tribes of DevOps 2016-10-09 3
Axelos are the Official source of DevOps now? 2016-12-10 4
Merry Christmas from the IT Skeptic 2016-12-24 5
The IT engineering fallacy 2017-01-03 4
ITIL exam market continues to shrink 2017-01-06 2
You can't improve a cog 2017-01-19 3
Move from change control to change facilitation 2017-01-30 5
The lizard brain 2017-02-07 4
Breaking the iron triangle of faster better cheaper 2017-02-08 4
Axelos legal bullies on the rampage 2017-02-22 4
IT projects go away? #NoProjects 2017-02-25 3
Lead with DevOps 2017-03-01 2
DevOps has three parents: Lean, Agile, and ITSM 2017-03-09 5
Why companies change their ITSM tool 2017-03-10 3
Hot desks suck 2017-03-21 5
Some cultural change principles I have learned 2017-03-31 4
Standard + Case methodology to be released by US government 2017-04-01 2
Two questions to ask 2017-04-04 2
Optimising control constraints 2017-04-11 6
Customer delight is a typically geek concept 2017-04-16 3
why DevOps transformations succeed where ITSM so often doesn't 2017-04-26 2
DevOps represents the emergence of systems thinking in IT 2017-04-28 4
The business case for DevOps automation 2017-05-07 2
A key operational feedback loop for DevOps 2017-05-18 5
Change goes away 2017-05-28 4
Kill the CAB 2017-06-07 5
DevOps Enterprise Summit: humane IT 2017-06-07 2
The future of ITIL 2017-07-18 2
DevOps isn't a tool to be applied selectively 2017-07-22 3
This must never happen again 2017-07-30 3
The fatal flaw of outsourcing 2017-08-06 2
images of Lean 2017-08-20 2
Theatre 2017-08-28 2
DevOps Configuration versus ITSM CMDB 2017-09-03 5
The IT Renaissance 2017-09-15 3
A project is a wave in a product structure 2017-09-18 5
DevOps messes with your head - reprised 2017-10-16 3
VeriSM 2017-10-21 5
Two kanban boards 2017-10-24 3
Go tell it at the conference 2017-10-29 4
How do I get speaking gigs. 2017-11-08 5
Devops rediscovering service management 2017-11-13 2