Directory of blog entries

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a more skeptical attitude toward IT is the right one to have 2006-10-29 1
Is ITIL Version 3 "Strategy Generation" a mystery process? 2007-12-04 1
The future of the IT Skeptic's blog 2007-07-24 1
Advertising to the itSMF keyword 2008-08-18 1
The IT Skeptic is away 2007-04-13 1
The community must police digital theft on the internet 2008-06-15 1
Things ITSM consultants hear 2015-05-25 1
ITIL V3 Application Management is a skinny little weakling 2008-05-27 1
What matters 2009-04-14 1
Sorry for any inconvenience 2007-05-26 1
How the ITIL Qualifications Board is made up and how to be on it 2008-07-15 1
For those who have NOT yet bought the IT Skeptic's book Introduction to Real ITSM, why not? 2009-03-11 1
How to win your ITIL business case 2008-06-15 1
Do we have two flavours of ITIL now? The plot to end ITIL V2 2009-04-13 1
itSMF USA board election irregularities: the IT Skeptic unlocks the original posts 2007-07-25 1
Plaxo as malware 2008-08-19 1
See the IT Skeptic at bITa USA 2007 Conference in Boston, May 21-22 2007-04-25 1
Foundation is the ONLY V3 exam that is going to be on Prometric 2008-08-10 1
The IT Skeptic defends his anonymity 2007-02-28 1
SLAs are not as widely applicable as ITIL would have us believe. The Catalog is. 2006-12-28 1
Visions of the Future of ITIL: the IT Swami's Seventh and Final Vision 2007-09-01 1
Regarding the new IT Skeptic colour scheme I ... 2009-04-25 1
Big Uncle: benevolent security. The positive side of the loss of privacy 2008-04-13 1
itSMF International launch an online discussion forum. 2007-12-12 1
ITIL Version 2.5: Will we see hybrids? 2007-07-26 1
Suggestions for RealIT Radio 2014-10-04 1
The way OGC and APMG stand back without any response is completely unacceptable 2007-04-30 1
The little spot of bother at the itSMF USA 2007-05-31 1
The culture of acquisitions 2008-07-17 1
Another ITIL compliance howler, this one from CA 2006-12-31 1
The IT Skeptic blog is about debating ideas not personalities 2007-09-01 1
Big Uncle: looking for the needle in the security data haystack 2008-04-26 1
The chair 2008-09-11 1
APMG finally let us in on ITIL Certification thinking 2007-05-01 1
Results of itSMF International Board election 2007-10-18 1
New IT Skeptic blog widget on CMDB 2008-08-06 1
Prometric lists ITIL V3 Foundation exams again ... for ISEB this time! 2008-03-31 1
Season's greetings 2012-12-29 1
Announcing the Inaugural IT Skeptic Awards for 2006 2007-01-01 1
Service Management is real 2006-05-23 1
The trainers actually delivering ITIL version 3 Foundations certification training are NOT HAPPY 2007-09-05 1
A hundred users call up and say they can't get emails. One incident or 100? 2009-10-22 1
Merry Christmas from the IT Skeptic 2007-12-25 1
IT Legends, a writing competition for IT people - tell us the legends of your IT past 2008-08-25 1
has there been any change to the ITIL V3 books? 2009-09-05 1
Announcing the IT Skeptic's ITIL Pipe - an ITIL newsfeed 2007-05-02 1
Something itSMFUSA seems to do well 2008-07-07 1
IT axioms 2010-12-21 1
the itSMF show is more fun than Harry Potter 2007-10-20 1
Web 2.0, hype or just hype? An IT Skeptic Special Report 2007-03-08 1
ITIL V3 Key Element Guides now available 2008-04-01 1
An apology to itSMF 2008-07-17 1
Will ISO9000 absorb or displace ITIL? 2008-05-12 1
Chokey the Chimp turns rockstar 2010-08-03 1
10 other things you should know about ITIL 2006-11-19 1
Big Brother vs. Big Uncle; the opposing sides of the loss of privacy to security systems 2008-04-15 1
ITSM introductory videos 2012-06-17 1
The computer that sang to its operators 2008-08-28 1
The death of blogging? 2013-01-16 1
itSMF has the mix right (for now): ITSM=ITIL 2007-10-22 1
Jedi Problem Management 2012-03-12 1
ITIL product compliance 2008-07-23 1
The pressure on ITIL's future notches up 2006-08-07 1
Windows vs cars 2015-03-06 1
Antonio Valle Salas's Mystery of the 1.1.1 Deleted - was ITIL once "public domain"? 2007-06-04 1
itSMF predicts competition to ITIL 2007-01-09 1
Social and mobile service support 2014-04-18 1
itSMF International has announced the results of election nominations 2007-09-06 1
Second Life 2008-11-06 1
Do Google ads undermine the credibility of this site? 2006-06-07 1
Quote of the day 2007-05-03 1
Where to officially report ITIL book errors: "behind a locked door marked BEWARE OF THE LEOPARD" 2007-06-25 1
Improving ITIL V3 graphics 2009-04-20 1
Life imitates art: the IT Skeptic's April Fool comes true on the same day! 2008-04-06 1
One more for the IT Skeptic's Rogues Gallery 2008-07-17 1
2007 is the year when PC and TV merge. 2007-01-10 1
ITIL the fad 2006-05-28 1
The new best book for introducing yourself to ITIL V3 2008-02-24 1
What I know about the candidates for itSMF International Chair and Board 2007-09-07 1
Obtaining compliance for policies, processes and procedures 2013-03-14 1
itSMF and ISACA: like chalk and cheese. 2008-01-05 1
They're changing the guard at ITIL palace 2007-08-04 1
Free IT magazines 2008-08-28 1
These big frameworks are in vogue because as opposed to thinking, folks just want the answer 2007-05-09 1
New design at the IT Skeptic Shop just for our British readers 2008-08-11 1
Irrational exuberance in the IT industry: CMDB is going nuts 2007-03-14 1
One more for the Links page 2008-07-18 1
What am I skeptical about? 2006-05-29 1
Please identify yourself if commenting about other people 2007-09-07 1
Are you being paid to read this blog? 2011-09-18 1
Wow! the IT Skeptic now available as podcasts! 2006-11-25 1
Big uncle: policies and controls for security systems 2008-05-07 1
See you in Melbourne 2010-06-19 1
the ITIL industry is worth about $2 BILLION to $5 BILLION per year 2007-08-05 1
For a monthly newsletter, The Skeptical Informer is 2007-03-11 1
IBM draws that long ITIL bow again 2007-05-10 1
Quote of the day 2008-06-03 1
All five IT Skeptic books available on Amazon 2009-04-21 1
ITSM for the Real World 2009-04-23 1
Survey of the benefits derived from ITSM professional certification 2010-02-17 1
itSMF risks instability and constitutional crisis through high-handed elimination of election candidates 2007-09-11 1
When will the geeks get it? 2006-11-26 1
The IT Skeptic does not condone IP theft 2008-04-12 1
New products in the IT Skeptic's store 2007-05-11 1
ITIL V3 Intermediate exams - the money engine wins again 2008-07-06 1
Memorial Day USA 2009-05-25 1
of course IT is an entity 2014-08-11 1
Great article about CMDB 2008-06-03 1
An idea for how to handle incidents as requests 2013-07-03 1
Recent articles by the IT Skeptic 2008-04-12 1
does the ITIL3 Foundation Bridging syllabus still need some editing? 2007-08-09 1
While ITIL V2 CMDB was silly, ITIL V3 SKMS is totally absurd 2008-05-18 1
ITIL the cult 2006-06-06 1
What name do you like best for a movement to reconcile DevOps and ITSM by finding a common worldview/model for IT management? 2013-02-13 1
itSMF International secret rules revealed 2007-08-10 1
Tell us what you think about the new ITIL Version 3 books, and see what others thought 2007-07-19 1
People people people people process process technology 2008-09-03 1
OGC need to get broadband up at Castle ITIL to understand the 21st Century. 2008-06-29 1
Availability is all about what they will pay for 2011-06-23 1
Thoughts on itSMF Singapore conference 2008-10-14 1
Wonderful sponsorship opportunity for ITIL reveals what? 2012-03-28 1
Microsoft are more avaricious than the Fat ITSM Four, by a nose 2007-03-24 1
Crap Factoid alert: Fifty percent of all CMDB projects fail due to inadequate planning. 2008-06-03 1
Why the IT Skeptic site exists 2007-06-13 1
The hot internet topic of IT jobs 2008-09-01 1
A great article on how technology does not fix process in CMDB 2007-02-08 1
Five reasons not to rush into ITIL Version 3 2007-09-14 1
Every word in the thesaurus: how to distinguish between PinkVerify and ITIL compliance 2006-12-01 1
Perhaps one day Service Management will become a universal discipline: ITIL 4? 2008-01-30 1
the distinction between organisational change and administrative production change 2008-09-03 1
Two ITIL-derived rules of thumb for organising the IT department 2009-09-17 1
When will ITIL wake up that Service Desk is about Requests not Incidents? 2007-11-02 1
ITIL V3 and eTOM, the rapprochement begins 2008-08-14 1
The ITIL version 3 Refresh Launch Roadshow: the world waits with bated breath.... 2007-03-26 1
The IT Skeptic is awarded the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards 2010 for IT consultant and analyst 2010-11-20 1
Set them free: ITIL, PRINCE2, SFIA... 2013-08-28 1
Magic happens. BMC promise some magic ITIL. 2007-06-15 1
The march of ITIL zealots 2006-06-09 1
The penny dropped: itSMF "members" are in fact shareholders. 2007-09-16 1
Merry Christmas 2008-12-24 1
A great new blog to check out 2006-12-02 1
ITIL vs. COBIT, ISO20000 et al, and itSMF's role in promoting them. 2008-01-30 1
Gearing up for the new year ahead: what would readers most like to see from the IT Skeptic in 2008? 2008-01-29 1
The king's method of writing a new decree: how OGC does ITIL V3 2007-05-13 1
ITIL certification and training: Version 2 recognised but not as a prerequisite for Version 3 2007-03-26 1
Everyone is off in their own little worlds: ITIL isn't the only parochial one 2008-06-10 1
Paint it yellow! Living in a world of numbers. From "Triumph of the Airheads" 2007-06-15 1
More on the privacy issue from Wharton U 2008-08-15 1
ITIL V3 has a bet each way: proven guidance and bleeding edge thought-leadership, but how to tell? 2008-05-21 1
The value of resources is defined by your context 2010-02-24 1