Directory of blog entries

Title Date Createdsort icon Hits today
A cool look at ITIL 2006-05-15 3
Acknowledgements 2006-05-16 8
Is ITIL another Y2K? 2006-05-17 8
Who is the ITIL Skeptic? 2006-05-17 8
Fads in IT 2006-05-21 2
Service Management is real 2006-05-23 1
ITIL the fad 2006-05-28 1
What am I skeptical about? 2006-05-29 1
Why chase Best Practice? 2006-06-01 4
Is ITIL Best Practice? 2006-06-02 3
ITIL the cult 2006-06-06 1
IT Skeptic bumped off Wikipedia 2006-06-06 2
Do Google ads undermine the credibility of this site? 2006-06-07 1
The march of ITIL zealots 2006-06-09 1
The Emperor has no clothes. Where is the evidence for ITIL? 2006-06-11 3
If IT ain’t broke don’t fix it. 2006-06-13 3
Many ITIL projects are overcapitalised renovations 2006-06-24 2
ITIL’s dead elephant: CMDB can't be done 2006-06-26 21
What a load of .... Computerworld: How Much Is 'Just Enough' for a CMDB? 2006-07-01 4
Do unto yourself before others do unto you 2006-07-12 2
Life beyond ITIL 2006-07-17 2
IBM: the company with such a firm grasp of ITIL strategic issues that they sold their service desk 2006-07-17 4
Our domain name is changing 2006-07-22 2
Is ITIL Dead in the Water? 2006-07-29 3
VOIP and the anti-competitive behaviours that would logically induce in a telco 2006-08-02 2
Living without CMDB 2006-08-05 2
ITIL's CMDB can't be done, no-how 2006-08-06 4
The pressure on ITIL's future notches up 2006-08-07 1
Get it straight: CMDB can not be auto-discovered 2006-08-13 3
Don't fall for the demo: an asset database with bells and whistles is not a CMDB 2006-08-13 2
This blog is not a guerilla marketing ploy 2006-08-15 2
The software analyst industry needs a code of practice. 2006-08-17 2
The key to living without CMDB is process maturity level 2006-08-25 3
The cure for the common cult of "ITIL by the book" 2006-08-28 9
An oldie but a goodie: software salesman dies and goes to Heaven... 2006-08-31 4
Quiet around here 2006-09-11 3
Debasement of concepts by IT vendors and analysts 2006-09-12 5
When you don't run IT as a business, the inevitable results: bad business decisions. 2006-09-26 1
The Craftsman and the Bazaar 2006-10-08 3
ITIL in Asia 2006-10-13 2
ITIL is far from comprehensive 2006-10-24 2
ITIL is culturally biased by its narrow and closed contributor base 2006-10-27 1
How to contribute to ITIL 2006-10-28 2
a more skeptical attitude toward IT is the right one to have 2006-10-29 1
The madness mounts. When will the CMDB reality check come? 2006-10-29 2
ITIL reduces costs by up to 48% - another crap factoid to beware of 2006-11-01 2
SLAs undermine business alignment 2006-11-12 3
Ask your vendor what they mean by ITIL compliant 2006-11-17 3
10 other things you should know about ITIL 2006-11-19 1
what gives with Jakarta as a hotbed of ITIL interest? and itSMF in Japan? 2006-11-19 2
a lot of motherhood considerations presented as a model 2006-11-19 2
Wow! the IT Skeptic now available as podcasts! 2006-11-25 1
When will the geeks get it? 2006-11-26 1
The IT Skeptic recommends BullFighter 2006-11-27 3
Normal transmission will be resumed as soon as possible 2006-11-29 2
Every word in the thesaurus: how to distinguish between PinkVerify and ITIL compliance 2006-12-01 1
A great new blog to check out 2006-12-02 1
VOIP is not cheating anyone. It is simply the future arriving. 2006-12-02 3
Technology does not fix process 2006-12-07 2
Busines cases are so simple: give the decisionmaker what they want 2006-12-09 1
The project 80/20 rule 2006-12-10 4
Is Microsoft attempting to patent CMDB? 2006-12-14 2
To all you ITIL zealots, and confounding vendors, and obfuscating analysts: Merry Christmas from the IT Skeptic 2006-12-20 1
collecting examples of terminological debasement 2006-12-21 2
What ARE Microsoft up to? Patents on RSS, CMDB, IT operations... Can they get away with this? 2006-12-22 2
You don't need a weatherman... watch everyone scramble aboard ISO20000 2006-12-25 3
SLAs are not as widely applicable as ITIL would have us believe. The Catalog is. 2006-12-28 1
Another ITIL compliance howler, this one from CA 2006-12-31 1
Announcing the Inaugural IT Skeptic Awards for 2006 2007-01-01 1
The IT Swami predicts 2007 2007-01-03 3
itSMF predicts competition to ITIL 2007-01-09 1
2007 is the year when PC and TV merge. 2007-01-10 1
ITIL is on the wane - Bruton 2007-01-22 4
The IT Skeptic has banned Bloglines crawlers 2007-02-04 2
Book review: "I Think Something is Missing From ITIL" by Ian Clayton, reviewed by the IT Skeptic 2007-02-05 5
Some things are more important than ITIL 2007-02-06 2
A great article on how technology does not fix process in CMDB 2007-02-08 1
The CMDB boundary problem: stop chasing this technological rainbow of a unified CMDB repository 2007-02-12 4
Should you do ITIL certification training with ITIL version 3 looming? An IT Skeptic Special Report 2007-02-13 2
Acoustic shock syndrome – don’t employ nervous anxious people in your call-centre, it will cost you 2007-02-14 2
The Service Delivery Tool gap? 2007-02-14 1
ITIL reform needed: not letting the money changers and hookers into the temple, just some sort of protestant reformation 2007-02-16 2
We have a date for publication of the ITIL Refresh 2007-02-18 2
The Emperor Still Has No Clothes: no evidence for ITIL 2007-02-21 3
BMC, CA, Fujitsu, HP, IBM and Microsoft promise to play nicely over ITIL CMDB. Yeah, right! 2007-02-21 1
An apology to the OGC, the itSMF and the ITIL community from the IT Skeptic 2007-02-26 2
Someone should tell the OGC and TSO bookshops about the ITIL Refresh 2007-02-27 2
The IT Skeptic defends his anonymity 2007-02-28 1
Somebody help me: what is the point of standalone CMDB tools? 2007-03-05 3
For users of the IT Skeptic's podcasts: I find the podcasts' style/delivery ... 2007-03-05 2
NEW! Announcing the newsletter of the IT Skeptic: The Skeptical Informer™ 2007-03-06 2
Web 2.0, hype or just hype? An IT Skeptic Special Report 2007-03-08 1
SLAs: measuring an ITSM service as a black box is essential 2007-03-10 3
For a monthly newsletter, The Skeptical Informer is 2007-03-11 1
CIO Asia magazine criticises the IT Skeptic's comments 2007-03-12 2
Irrational exuberance in the IT industry: CMDB is going nuts 2007-03-14 1
Vendors should get a vote too? What do you think? 2007-03-14 2
IBM wrote ITIL. In fact Alasdair Meldrum did 2007-03-16 2
Rediscovering the Big Iron 2007-03-23 3
Microsoft are more avaricious than the Fat ITSM Four, by a nose 2007-03-24 1
The ITIL version 3 Refresh Launch Roadshow: the world waits with bated breath.... 2007-03-26 1
ITIL certification and training: Version 2 recognised but not as a prerequisite for Version 3 2007-03-26 1
Software branding seems to be in the hands of imbeciles. 2007-03-28 1
The PIllars of ITIL: time for OGC's ITIL to grow up or wither 2007-03-29 1
Six reasons to use Live Chat for support 2007-03-31 2
ITIL Version 3 London launch event announced: the IT Skeptic comments 2007-03-31 1
Today’s shock joint announcement from Microsoft and IBM throws ITIL Refresh into doubt 2007-04-01 1
Book Review - "IT Service Management from Hell! Based on Not-ITIL®" 2007-04-04 1
A hot-potato ITIL Refresh session at upcoming bITa USA conference 2007-04-10 1
The IT Skeptic is away 2007-04-13 1
See the IT Skeptic at bITa USA 2007 Conference in Boston, May 21-22 2007-04-25 1
The way OGC and APMG stand back without any response is completely unacceptable 2007-04-30 1
APMG finally let us in on ITIL Certification thinking 2007-05-01 1
Announcing the IT Skeptic's ITIL Pipe - an ITIL newsfeed 2007-05-02 1
itSMF announce all seven global ITIL Version 3 launch events only weeks away so book now! 2007-05-03 3
Quote of the day 2007-05-03 1
These big frameworks are in vogue because as opposed to thinking, folks just want the answer 2007-05-09 1
IBM draws that long ITIL bow again 2007-05-10 1
New products in the IT Skeptic's store 2007-05-11 1
Sharon Taylor's five common myths about ITIL Version 3 2007-05-12 2
Powerpoint as a protector of intellectual property 2007-05-12 2
Watch out Microsoft, your spurious patents may be worthless 2007-05-13 2
The king's method of writing a new decree: how OGC does ITIL V3 2007-05-13 1
How badly is ITIL damaged by vendor influence? What needs fixing? 2007-05-14 2
An Alternative to ITIL 2007-05-14 2
The CMDB Tidal Wave? More of a ripple. 2007-05-16 2
A visualisation of how ITIL Version 3 transforms ITIL version 2 2007-05-17 5
The scale of ITIL Version 3: are people ready for it? 2007-05-22 1
A skeptical newcomer to the ITSM blogosphere 2007-05-22 3
ITSM skepticism becomes a crowded field 2007-05-22 5
everything the IT Skeptic can find out about ITIL Version 3 on one page 2007-05-22 1
Sorry for any inconvenience 2007-05-26 1
IT Skeptic Version 3 Refresh 2007-05-30 3
The little spot of bother at the itSMF USA 2007-05-31 1
The itSMF does not exists to represent the interests of its members - they say so themselves 2007-06-01 4
itSMF UK CEO discusses itSMF on the IT Skeptic's blog - come read and participate 2007-06-03 3
Antonio Valle Salas's Mystery of the 1.1.1 Deleted - was ITIL once "public domain"? 2007-06-04 1
The CMDB Federation lumbers on 2007-06-10 2
My first ITIL spam. ITSM is going to the dogs. 2007-06-10 2
Financial transparency of the itSMF: let's have some. 2007-06-12 2
ITIL V3 Certification points system: the magic number 21.5 2007-06-12 2
itSMF global members/sponsors: dropping your pants is not a good business model 2007-06-12 4
Why the IT Skeptic site exists 2007-06-13 1
Are you a member of itSMF? 2007-06-13 2
Magic happens. BMC promise some magic ITIL. 2007-06-15 1
Paint it yellow! Living in a world of numbers. From "Triumph of the Airheads" 2007-06-15 1
Personal attacks will be edited. 2007-06-16 1
New improved version of the IT Skeptics "ITIL Version 2 to Version 3 Transformation" diagram 2007-06-18 2
ITIL Version 3 changes everything for ATOs and consulting firms. 2007-06-19 2
The commercialisation of ITIL: a slow boiling of the frog 2007-06-20 2