Directory of blog entries

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Microsoft screws me, Google seduces me 2009-11-26 4
Microsoft ups the ante on ITIL by releasing MOF into the public domain 2008-09-16 4
Millennials: our ITSM future 2013-06-10 3
Mincing money: the boundary between Agile and project funding 2018-06-06 4
Minor crap factoid spotted: "nearly half consider ITIL very critical to achieving their goals" 2008-04-20 1
Mobility and work-life balance 2012-08-06 1
Model of Change 2008-07-12 1
More AI hype from CIO.com 2018-04-10 2
More discussion of CMDB: not the best use of funds 2009-04-27 3
More Future of IT Management 2012-06-15 4
More on the privacy issue from Wharton U 2008-08-15 1
More on the three sets of itSMF rules 2007-08-13 3
Move from change control to change facilitation 2017-01-30 5
Muddled Management of Portfolios 2011-11-15 2
Multi-Speed IT 2015-04-19 8
Multiple choice questions criticised but not in ITIL V3 this time 2009-04-03 1
My apologies to Forrester 2013-06-21 4
My changing mind 2019-01-27 3
My company's (or client's) status on CMDB (as defined by ITIL) is 2008-06-16 0
My first ITIL spam. ITSM is going to the dogs. 2007-06-10 2
My host is WestHost 2009-07-16 0
My how ITIL has grown: the size of the new ITIL V3 2011 2011-07-15 2
My kind of CMDB 2008-10-09 0
MyCMDB? What are they smokin' over at Managed Objects? 2008-06-25 4
NASA employs ITIL to provide fully automated lights-out IT operations for all future space missions 2008-04-01 1
New design at the IT Skeptic Shop just for our British readers 2008-08-11 1
New improved version of the IT Skeptics "ITIL Version 2 to Version 3 Transformation" diagram 2007-06-18 2
New IT Skeptic blog widget on CMDB 2008-08-06 1
New itSMF Board elected 2010-10-27 1
New itSMF newsletter - boon or burden? 2010-07-04 5
New LinkedIn group for Owning ITIL 2009-09-30 3
New products in the IT Skeptic's store 2007-05-11 1
New Service as a Service offering raises some questions 2012-04-01 3
New subscription system for the IT Skeptic website 2008-05-09 0
New technique to squeeze optimum performance from helpdesks 2009-11-06 1
New Ways Of Managing 2018-10-09 6
New Ways of Working: Agile, Devops; do you get it? 2018-04-10 9
New Zealand makes another positive contribution to itSMF International 2009-04-23 2
NEW! Announcing the newsletter of the IT Skeptic: The Skeptical Informer™ 2007-03-06 2
news of IT's death is greatly exaggerated 2013-06-20 2
Nicholas Carr and the demise of journalism 2009-02-23 2
nimbleness and the need to compete via technology 2014-07-14 2
No new concepts in the ITIL V3 2nd Edition - the ITIL RefreshRefresh? 2009-09-23 2
no such thing as ITIL consultants 2014-07-09 2
No such thing as Root Cause 2015-07-09 4
No thanks I don't want to look at your ITSM product 2010-03-04 2
No we haven't passed the Turing Test 2014-07-20 3
Noble Failure 2016-05-29 2
Normal program will be resumed as soon as possible 2014-04-21 1
Normal transmission will be resumed as soon as possible 2006-11-29 2
Not a review of Cult of the Amateur 2009-02-23 2
Note to devops; smaller changes do not equate to less risk 2012-11-03 3
Obtaining compliance for policies, processes and procedures 2013-03-14 0
Obtaining the ITIL V3 Foundation syllabus 2009-05-06 2
Occam's Razor applied to itSMF USA election saga 2007-09-19 1
of course IT is an entity 2014-08-11 0
Official ITIL compliance standard 2009-04-01 3
OGC and TSO release ITIL V3 Update scope and development plan 2010-02-18 3
OGC Change Log for errors in ITIL, Prince2, M-o-R etc 2008-07-10 1
OGC fix their trademark guidance for ITIL, Prince2 etc 2010-12-01 2
OGC gives us an ITIL V3 maturity assessment standard, but they won't publish 2009-06-01 2
OGC need to get broadband up at Castle ITIL to understand the 21st Century. 2008-06-29 0
OGC publish a useless Lifecycle Process Model for ITIL V3 2008-05-09 1
OGC re-forms to create DevOps body of knowledge 2016-03-31 2
OGC rebranding comes apart, so to speak 2008-05-09 4
OGC revising ITIL again 2009-09-11 4
OGC stay one step ahead of government policy in their commercialisation of ITIL. Better news for PRINCE2 2009-12-19 3
On account of the economy 2009-11-16 2
On collaboration and debate 2013-01-27 2
On demand CMDB 2008-11-03 0
On Demand CMDB implications 2009-04-04 1
On entitlement and bodies of knowledge 2014-01-23 3
On exponential systems 2013-01-14 2
On-Demand CMDB reprise 2009-02-09 0
One more for the IT Skeptic's Rogues Gallery 2008-07-17 0
One more for the Links page 2008-07-18 0
One reason why OGC has to make some serious money out of ITIL and PRINCE2 2010-06-01 3
Open letter to ITIL Qualifications Board 2009-11-05 3
Open Source is political: Blows Against The Empire 2009-03-23 5
Open source systems management tools: an informal directory 2008-09-30 2
Open space for leadership 2019-05-14 3
Operating the Cloud: the people and process questions 2009-04-08 2
Operational Readiness 2011-05-05 7
Optimising control constraints 2017-04-11 6
Organisations have failed their IT like bad parents 2012-03-18 4
Our domain name is changing 2006-07-22 2
Over a million ITILers 2010-09-08 3
Overcoming the dysfunctions of IT project management 2018-07-04 3
Overcoming the Folly of the Crowd 2008-10-15 2
Owning ITIL now available on Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.jp etc 2009-05-27 3
Owning ITIL: project horror stories 2009-04-28 2
Paint it yellow! Living in a world of numbers. From "Triumph of the Airheads" 2007-06-15 1
Pass the ITIL Foundation exam in six easy and (almost) free steps 2009-09-05 12
People first in ITSM 2011-11-02 2
People people people people process process technology 2008-09-03 1
People work for money 2013-12-10 6
People, Practices, Things 2009-02-18 1
Perhaps one day Service Management will become a universal discipline: ITIL 4? 2008-01-30 1
Personal attacks will be edited. 2007-06-16 1
Personal integrity and morality in IT 2013-09-11 2
Physical conferences aren't dead 2013-07-06 2
Plaxo as malware 2008-08-19 1
Playing a piano is easy 2019-09-14 5
Please identify yourself if commenting about other people 2007-09-07 1
Porter quotes 2008-08-26 3
portfolio lifecycles 2008-06-26 1
Powerpoint as a protector of intellectual property 2007-05-12 2
Practice maturity is a measure of management not performance 2009-11-29 2
Prince2 2009 plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose 2009-05-02 1
PRINCE2 2009 refresh spookily familiar to ITIL users 2009-04-06 2
prISM 2011-04-17 2
prISM service management professional certification great in theory flawed in execution 2009-10-28 3
Privacy is dead - get over it. 2008-01-22 5
Privacy is not dead, just becoming impossible 2011-08-07 2
Problem detection is everyone's duty 2010-04-26 2
Process maturity is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for improving service. 2009-11-30 2
Progress 2013-07-14 2
Project management was the worst thing that ever happened to IT 2017-12-05 3
Proliferation of ITIL V3 introductions and pocketbooks 2009-10-22 2
Prometric lists ITIL V3 Foundation exams again ... for ISEB this time! 2008-03-31 1
Public review of the ITIL V3 Foundation Syllabus: who knew? 2008-09-21 1
Public service 2010-09-29 1
Pulling apart the IT Skeptic 2009-02-27 1
Pundits painting the perfect picture 2013-09-23 0
Questioning the tenets of ITIL 2011-05-01 0
Quiet around here 2006-09-11 3
Quote of the day 2007-05-03 1
Quote of the day 2008-06-03 0
Railroads don't have a batch size of 1 2016-09-27 2
Rant vs counter-rant: the ITIL V3 Certification Scheme 2010-07-27 2
Real IT is at three levels: governance, management and execution 2014-01-14 2
Real IT: the RealIT of information technology 2013-08-07 4
Real ITIL training 2011-04-30 4
Real ITSM group on LinkedIn 2009-02-24 3
Real ITSM priority starts at zero and goes up 2008-08-22 2
Real ITSM released in Russian 2010-04-05 2
Real ITSM user priority 2008-12-01 2
Recent articles by the IT Skeptic 2008-04-12 0
recent pics 2013-06-22 1
Recession Recession Recession Recession Recession Recession Recession Recession 2008-10-22 4
Rediscovering the Big Iron 2007-03-23 3
Refining the Five Percent Club 2011-04-07 3
Reflections on DevOps Enterprise conference 2014-11-13 2
Reflections on the DevOps Enterprise Summit UK 2016 2016-07-12 3
Refreshes all round and no time to apply 2009-10-06 2
Regarding the new IT Skeptic colour scheme I ... 2009-04-25 1
Release management: landing airplanes 2014-10-16 2
Remarkably frank, but what are the benefits of the ITIL V3 Update? 2010-07-19 4
Remedyforce crap factoid alert 2012-10-06 6
repeatable process 2008-11-26 1