Directory of blog entries

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What ARE Microsoft up to? Patents on RSS, CMDB, IT operations... Can they get away with this? 2006-12-22 2
collecting examples of terminological debasement 2006-12-21 2
To all you ITIL zealots, and confounding vendors, and obfuscating analysts: Merry Christmas from the IT Skeptic 2006-12-20 1
Is Microsoft attempting to patent CMDB? 2006-12-14 2
The project 80/20 rule 2006-12-10 4
Busines cases are so simple: give the decisionmaker what they want 2006-12-09 1
Technology does not fix process 2006-12-07 2
VOIP is not cheating anyone. It is simply the future arriving. 2006-12-02 3
A great new blog to check out 2006-12-02 1
Every word in the thesaurus: how to distinguish between PinkVerify and ITIL compliance 2006-12-01 1
Normal transmission will be resumed as soon as possible 2006-11-29 2
The IT Skeptic recommends BullFighter 2006-11-27 3
When will the geeks get it? 2006-11-26 1
Wow! the IT Skeptic now available as podcasts! 2006-11-25 1
a lot of motherhood considerations presented as a model 2006-11-19 2
what gives with Jakarta as a hotbed of ITIL interest? and itSMF in Japan? 2006-11-19 2
10 other things you should know about ITIL 2006-11-19 1
Ask your vendor what they mean by ITIL compliant 2006-11-17 3
SLAs undermine business alignment 2006-11-12 3
ITIL reduces costs by up to 48% - another crap factoid to beware of 2006-11-01 2
The madness mounts. When will the CMDB reality check come? 2006-10-29 2
a more skeptical attitude toward IT is the right one to have 2006-10-29 1
How to contribute to ITIL 2006-10-28 2
ITIL is culturally biased by its narrow and closed contributor base 2006-10-27 1
ITIL is far from comprehensive 2006-10-24 2
ITIL in Asia 2006-10-13 2
The Craftsman and the Bazaar 2006-10-08 3
When you don't run IT as a business, the inevitable results: bad business decisions. 2006-09-26 1
Debasement of concepts by IT vendors and analysts 2006-09-12 5
Quiet around here 2006-09-11 3
An oldie but a goodie: software salesman dies and goes to Heaven... 2006-08-31 3
The cure for the common cult of "ITIL by the book" 2006-08-28 9
The key to living without CMDB is process maturity level 2006-08-25 3
The software analyst industry needs a code of practice. 2006-08-17 2
This blog is not a guerilla marketing ploy 2006-08-15 2
Don't fall for the demo: an asset database with bells and whistles is not a CMDB 2006-08-13 2
Get it straight: CMDB can not be auto-discovered 2006-08-13 3
The pressure on ITIL's future notches up 2006-08-07 1
ITIL's CMDB can't be done, no-how 2006-08-06 4
Living without CMDB 2006-08-05 2
VOIP and the anti-competitive behaviours that would logically induce in a telco 2006-08-02 2
Is ITIL Dead in the Water? 2006-07-29 3
Our domain name is changing 2006-07-22 2
IBM: the company with such a firm grasp of ITIL strategic issues that they sold their service desk 2006-07-17 4
Life beyond ITIL 2006-07-17 2
Do unto yourself before others do unto you 2006-07-12 2
What a load of .... Computerworld: How Much Is 'Just Enough' for a CMDB? 2006-07-01 4
ITIL’s dead elephant: CMDB can't be done 2006-06-26 21
Many ITIL projects are overcapitalised renovations 2006-06-24 2
If IT ain’t broke don’t fix it. 2006-06-13 3
The Emperor has no clothes. Where is the evidence for ITIL? 2006-06-11 3
The march of ITIL zealots 2006-06-09 1
Do Google ads undermine the credibility of this site? 2006-06-07 1
IT Skeptic bumped off Wikipedia 2006-06-06 2
ITIL the cult 2006-06-06 1
Is ITIL Best Practice? 2006-06-02 3
Why chase Best Practice? 2006-06-01 4
What am I skeptical about? 2006-05-29 1
ITIL the fad 2006-05-28 1
Service Management is real 2006-05-23 1
Fads in IT 2006-05-21 2
Who is the ITIL Skeptic? 2006-05-17 8
Is ITIL another Y2K? 2006-05-17 8
Acknowledgements 2006-05-16 8
A cool look at ITIL 2006-05-15 3