terminology

ISO38500 may be too late; the word "governance" is rapidly equalling "management"

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2008-06-07 01:03

The word "governance" is in danger of total debasement. ISO38500 may be only half-cooked but that is because it arrived just in time... or perhaps too late.

What Governance Isn't

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2008-03-19 07:57

Governance is hot. "Governance" is the "in" word right now in IT. It is also a word that is suffering badly from terminological debasement, something the IT Skeptic has railed against on this blog before. Look for more on this in the near future.

collecting examples of terminological debasement

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2006-12-21 21:11

Maybe I'll start collecting examples of terminological debasement, such as

Debasement of IT terms

Submitted by skeptic on Tue, 2006-12-05 09:52
9:07 minutes (8 MB)

This is a podcast of the original article from the IT Skeptic: "Debasement of concepts by IT vendors and analysts" by the IT Skeptic.

The persistent erosion of meaning in IT terminology is a damaging practice endemic across vendors and analysts. When a concept gains some currency and everyone wants it, suddenly all the vendors have got it - often by re-labelling a feature of their existing product. And the analysts keep confusing the definition so no-one can call the vendors out for this obfuscation.

ITIL's CMDB can't be done, no-how

Submitted by skeptic on Sun, 2006-08-06 22:02

This discussion of CMDB and its total impracticality has got legs. Let me reinforce two points please: (1) CMDB can't be done because of the data and regardless of the implementation and (2) I'm talking about CMDB as specified by the ITIL books, not any old database. It can't be done.

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