Directory of blog entries

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Results of IT Skeptic survey on CMDB penetration 2008-06-29 2
The TSO bull is back in the ITIL china-shop: TSO issues take-down notices 2013-02-24 2
The fatal flaw of outsourcing 2017-08-06 2
ITIL's value statement to the business 2007-10-25 2
The IT Skeptic is writing a new book on service management 2009-11-18 2
Wow, now itSMF USA has TWO presidents. 2007-06-27 2
The dysfunctions of transformation 2019-09-13 2
the world of ITIL V3 certification and training 2008-08-12 2
Vendors should get a vote too? What do you think? 2007-03-14 2
You can't always bring what you want: BYOD 2013-07-30 2
This blog is not a guerilla marketing ploy 2006-08-15 2
A little something as a thank-you for registered readers of this blog 2010-04-26 2
Financial transparency of the itSMF: let's have some. 2007-06-12 2
What a drag spammers are 2008-07-19 2
Cloned logos 2011-03-02 2
The IT Skeptic has banned Bloglines crawlers 2007-02-04 2
The grey area between governance and management 2008-05-17 2
news of IT's death is greatly exaggerated 2013-06-20 2
Imagine using the internet as knowledge 2012-11-17 2
My kind of CMDB 2008-10-09 2
Another IT Skeptic book available in Russian - what can you do with the IT Skeptic's material? 2010-12-15 2
CMDBf ...um...explained 2009-03-05 2
Customer-centric 2013-04-13 2
The blogging bubble 2008-01-20 2
The fallacy of the linear value of time 2010-02-22 2
The service desk isn't here right now 2012-07-23 2
Visions of the Future of ITIL: Third Vision 2007-08-07 2
Are you a member of itSMF? 2007-06-13 2
A new look for the IT Skeptic, and a note on Excessive Technical Fastidiousness or ETF 2008-09-02 2
itSMF Communications 2012-03-20 2
Continual Chunky Correction 2011-06-13 2
IBM wrote ITIL. In fact Alasdair Meldrum did 2007-03-16 2
The iPhone apps goldrush 2009-04-22 2
Inconsistency in ITIL product compliance? 2010-11-13 2
The software analyst industry needs a code of practice. 2006-08-17 2
Minor crap factoid spotted: "nearly half consider ITIL very critical to achieving their goals" 2008-04-20 2
Hurry for your ITIL V3 Expert certification 2009-02-19 2
ITIL V3 Certification points system: the magic number 21.5 2007-06-12 2
ITIL Software Scheme comes under more fire 2009-07-02 2
The CMDB Federation proceeeds at its usual glacial pace 2008-05-17 2
The Magnolia bursts 2009-03-30 2
ITIL Certification: a technique for passing multiple-choice exams 2008-03-01 2
Taking on the CMDB Deathstar 2009-10-30 2
I sold my soul to Google 2010-12-17 2
What should IT call the Rest Of The Business? 2009-03-11 2
More AI hype from CIO.com 2018-04-10 2
Improve first 2012-10-09 2
I want links on the IT Skeptic site that link to another site to open in ... 2007-07-11 2
The ITIL V3 - COBIT V4.1 mapping white paper is available and no wonder noone is saying much 2008-09-02 2
why on earth did ITIL V3 rename Forward Schedule of Change to Change Schedule? 2009-09-21 2
IT is not a snowflake 2014-11-17 2
Sharon Taylor's five common myths about ITIL Version 3 2007-05-12 2
ISACA's new strategy for COBIT and its future impact on ITIL 2009-05-30 2
The 3Rs: Roles Responsibilities Relationships 2016-02-28 2
The IT Skeptic's first impressions of the ITIL Version 3 core books 2007-07-02 2
Terminological debasement 2012-07-26 2
Happy Birthday ITIL V3, my how you have ... grown? 2008-06-03 2
Self-deluding optimism over the recession 2009-04-23 2
Gullibility: the extraordinary spread of crap factoids on the internet 2008-04-15 2
ISO/IEC 20000 as a mandatory requirement 2009-02-19 2
Is Knowledge Management a hole in COBIT? 2009-07-03 2
Don't try to change culture 2014-07-05 2
Some things are more important than ITIL 2007-02-06 2
Deep discounts for ITIL Live™ 2009-04-01 2
Two new heads 2013-06-12 2
itSMF International launches new website 2008-03-03 2
British Government Cabinet Office is selling ITIL and Prince2 2012-11-01 2
a scout hall built between a pub and a brothel 2007-09-13 2
The IT Skeptic Awards for 2010 2010-12-31 2
Normal transmission will be resumed as soon as possible 2006-11-29 2
Analyst crap factoids as memes: nobody thinks any more 2008-04-12 2
Updated terms and conditions for this site 2009-03-13 2
Does DevOps eliminate any ITSM processes? 2018-04-18 2
What I did in my summer holidays 2008-01-26 2
Is APMG an accreditor or a competitor for ITIL ATOs? 2010-01-13 2
Interesting comparison between Google and Microsoft product launches 2012-06-29 2
Hornbill ITIL State of the Nation survey: Viewer discretion advised 2009-09-24 2
Powerpoint as a protector of intellectual property 2007-05-12 2
Devops rediscovering service management 2017-11-13 2
The last application lifecycle 2015-09-22 2
Technology does not fix process problems, but that's still what people want to see 2007-07-03 2
Runtime Google analytics errors 2008-08-13 2
If all I had was a hammer 2014-07-18 2
Interruption to service 2009-10-21 2
Google enters the fitness device market 2015-03-31 2
Response from British Government to appeals for Free ITIL 2011-03-25 2
The soundtrack to the IT Skeptic blog 2008-05-18 2
Why forums are dangerous 2009-06-18 2
IT Skeptic bumped off Wikipedia 2006-06-06 2
Crap Factoid Alert: "Two-thirds of companies around the globe are using ITIL" 2008-03-25 2
Another blog to watch is Platen - where technology meets common sense 2009-02-09 2
Lead with DevOps 2017-03-01 2
Do you know the professional recognition of individuals in Service Management Institute, a.k.a. prISM? 2014-10-27 2
ITIL's online presence is a dog's breakfast 2009-05-27 2
Why Crap Factoids get believed 2008-04-26 2
The IT Skeptic podcasts 2009-03-18 2
APMG has our full support 2008-12-09 2
The IT Skeptic's New Year resolutions 2009-12-31 2
I have personally attended an ITIL Version 3 training course and I feel about the EXAM... 2007-10-09 2
Serious contributions from the IT Skeptic 2011-09-27 2
Watch out Microsoft, your spurious patents may be worthless 2007-05-13 2
images of Lean 2017-08-20 2
EXIN runs a poll on the future of ITIL V2 2008-10-20 2
Christmas is coming 2009-11-26 2
Constructive criticism or demonising ITIL? 2009-10-21 2
ISO38500 may be too late; the word "governance" is rapidly equalling "management" 2008-06-07 2
New Zealand makes another positive contribution to itSMF International 2009-04-23 2
don't expect technology to alter the way business is run 2008-08-13 2
The IT Skeptic's happy birthday 2014-05-16 2
portfolio lifecycles 2008-06-26 2
ITIL Incident, is there a better word for it? 2009-06-15 2
Comments from the IT Skeptic blog, February 2008 2008-03-04 2
Service catalogue discussion forum 2012-11-03 2
Terminological debasement of governance 2009-06-14 2
The Netherlands is an unusual country 2008-04-23 2
EasyVista release Category 2 cluster of ITSM crap factoids 2010-07-07 2
What does going fast mean? 2018-05-12 2
Windows Vista - the sick slug 2008-12-09 2
Mobility and work-life balance 2012-08-06 2
Memo to itSMF: this is how you run an organisation 2009-09-17 2
Muddled Management of Portfolios 2011-11-15 2
Thank-you and Merry Christmas from the IT Skeptic 2014-12-25 2
Auto-discovery is only a minor consideration for CMDB 2008-07-01 2
Nicholas Carr and the demise of journalism 2009-02-23 2
emerging trends and themes of IT Service Management 2010-05-07 2
Practice maturity is a measure of management not performance 2009-11-29 2
Microsoft Office dependency 2012-04-16 2
ITIL on eBay: an IT Skeptic Special Report 2007-07-11 2
The IT Skeptic's RealIT Radio 2014-07-26 2
Cutting the cost of IT Operations 2009-04-25 2
How it feels to be the IT Skeptic 2009-10-23 2
Reviews of Owning ITIL 2009-07-09 2
We need a movement 2011-03-29 2
ITIL v3 - what standard is this based on? 2014-07-10 2
Should you do ITIL certification training with ITIL version 3 looming? An IT Skeptic Special Report 2007-02-13 2
Some thoughts on the Capita JV 2013-06-30 2
Not a review of Cult of the Amateur 2009-02-23 2
latest on ITIL Version 3 Certification from APMG 2007-09-18 2
OGC gives us an ITIL V3 maturity assessment standard, but they won't publish 2009-06-01 2
the rising anger at OGC and APMG over ITIL and Prince2 2010-12-23 2
What's so creepy 2014-01-12 2
Where the IT Skeptic has been 2008-05-07 2
McKinsey on how CIOs should think about business value 2009-03-19 2
Shopping: request vs incident 2012-07-30 2
How badly is ITIL damaged by vendor influence? What needs fixing? 2007-05-14 2
Castle ITIL really is so insular and parochial it is laughable 2008-07-04 2
If you like this blog please Like this blog 2010-05-09 2
On collaboration and debate 2013-01-27 2
Process maturity is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for improving service. 2009-11-30 2
Is ITIL V3 Foundations designed to suit the needs of the students or the trainers? 2007-07-12 2