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what makes a successful blog

Submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2015-02-03 02:00

While The IT Skeptic is not a hugely popular site I think it's fair to say it is a successful one. Certainly some people seem to think so: I'm often asked to comment on others' blogs or advise how to go about one.

The first question is why you blog; and hence what defines success for the blogger.

A blog serves any of three purposes:
To communicate/share.
To record ideas.

DevOpsRun: DevOps is great but what about Run?

Submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2015-01-20 07:11

Is there a bigger picture than DevOps? (I defined it here). In theory no, it encompasses the whole IT lifecycle of services. But in practice it seems to me much DevOps discourse is still Build- and Transition-centric. We can expand thinking to all of DevOpsRun.

Service Portfolio Management is more important than programme or project portfolio

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2015-01-14 04:41

There is a wonderful insight in ITIL that is seldom noticed and even less often understood

It is Service Portfolio Management (SPM).

the ITIL Squeeze in 2015

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2015-01-08 20:58

© Copyright CanstockPhoto.comAXELOS are doing a few troubling things lately, that may or may not point to an ITIL Squeeze in 2015 as AXELOS seek to capitalise on their purchase of ITIL (and the rest of the Best Practice por

je suis Charlie

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2015-01-08 02:48

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Thank-you and Merry Christmas from the IT Skeptic

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2014-12-25 09:46

Xmas reindeer
In this holiday season I'm sending out special thank-you to all the loyal followers of this blog

There is no such thing as NoOps: it is an awful word

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2014-12-11 10:27

There is no term I detest more than "NoOps". NoOps means nothing runs, which means the business comes to a halt.

"NoOps" is provocative, alienating, patronising and demeaning to those who care about Ops. There will always be a science of making it run good and safe. There will always be Ops as an activity and function and skillset. Please erase this hideous word from your vocabulary.

Uber, big brother, and company use of big data

Submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2014-12-09 19:56

There's social privacy (hiding from the state) and personal privacy (hiding from your neighbours). Where do corporations fit in?

Define DevOps: What is DevOps?

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2014-11-29 08:32

A reader asked me to define DevOps. It's not easy to find definitions. Here's mine.

ISACA's strategy and missed opportunity

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2014-11-27 22:11

is ISACA missing its window of opportunity to own the IT practices space? To be THE body of knowledge, the one ring to rule them all...

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