Directory of blog entries

Title Date Createdsort icon Hits today
The real Shadow IT is not about personal computing 2014-07-17 0
If all I had was a hammer 2014-07-18 0
No we haven't passed the Turing Test 2014-07-20 1
How Operational Readiness should be done 2014-07-23 3
ITSM incident and problem: two names for three things 2014-07-25 2
The IT Skeptic's RealIT Radio 2014-07-26 0
What is the best ITIL service desk tool? 2014-07-27 3
revisiting agile CSI 2014-07-30 2
IT service build is not a factory 2014-08-01 0
DevOps buzzword bingo 2014-08-04 1
The corporate yoke 2014-08-07 0
of course IT is an entity 2014-08-11 0
The Chicken ITles are at work on IT project success rates 2014-08-15 0
where does DevOps work in the enterprise? 2014-08-18 1
Here comes China 2014-08-20 2
The nett result of new technology 2014-08-26 0
How to deal with Shadow IT 2014-08-28 1
Does ISACA offer value to its real members? 2014-09-07 1
Dark IT 2014-09-12 4
ITIL exams have fallen 11% in the last year 2014-09-15 0
Changes to user interface 2014-09-17 0
That which cannot be measured... 2014-09-26 0
Suggestions for RealIT Radio 2014-10-04 0
Dont blame the tool: squeeze the asset, fix the behaviour 2014-10-06 1
Release management: landing airplanes 2014-10-16 0
the Kingdom of SIAM 2014-10-22 3
Tracking citizens 2014-10-23 2
Do you know the professional recognition of individuals in Service Management Institute, a.k.a. prISM? 2014-10-27 1
Software is free like a puppy is free 2014-10-29 3
the state of prISM 2014-10-30 0
The Wright Cycle 2014-11-05 3
Axelos are dropping ITIL complementary certifications 2014-11-07 1
Reflections on DevOps Enterprise conference 2014-11-13 0
IT is not a snowflake 2014-11-17 1
ISACA's strategy and missed opportunity 2014-11-27 1
Define DevOps: What is DevOps? 2014-11-29 4
Uber, big brother, and company use of big data 2014-12-09 3
There is no such thing as NoOps: it is an awful word 2014-12-11 2
Thank-you and Merry Christmas from the IT Skeptic 2014-12-25 0
je suis Charlie 2015-01-08 0
the ITIL Squeeze in 2015 2015-01-08 1
Service Portfolio Management is more important than programme or project portfolio 2015-01-14 3
DevOpsRun: DevOps is great but what about Run? 2015-01-20 5
what makes a successful blog 2015-02-03 1
The design police at Google say they'll push this site down the search rankings 2015-02-24 1
In praise of ITSM engagement models 2015-03-03 0
Windows vs cars 2015-03-06 0
Axelos announces a new level of ITIL certification: Practitioner 2015-03-15 0
DevOps Unicorns Horses and Mules 2015-03-17 2
Agile is an excuse for chaos? 2015-03-19 1
Darwin doesnt justify change 2015-03-19 1
Who owns the system during the go-live warranty period? 2015-03-22 0
Service Management Truths #SMTruths 2015-03-29 1
Axelos Consulting Partner (ACP) Programme 2015-03-30 2
Google enters the fitness device market 2015-03-31 0
Axelos selling ITIL? 2015-04-01 3
Use verbs to describe services 2015-04-08 1
The IT Skeptic's Big Ideas 2015-04-11 4
ITSM success is driven by people and policy 2015-04-19 1
Multi-Speed IT 2015-04-19 5
Whats up with Cyber Resilience? 2015-04-24 1
the internet fosters madness 2015-05-01 6
Copyright issues when using ITIL at the coalface 2015-05-05 0
Considerations for Multi-Speed IT 2015-05-11 1
The IT Skeptic is nine years old today. Thank-you! 2015-05-15 0
Things ITSM consultants hear 2015-05-25 0
The IT Liberation Movement - an IT Renaissance 2015-05-26 3
ISACA Bylaws change 2015 2015-06-03 0
An interesting tale of ITIL trademarks 2015-06-06 4
ITSM emphasis on aligning underpinning contracts with SLAs 2015-06-17 1
Social media discourse degenerates 2015-07-01 1
No such thing as Root Cause 2015-07-09 2
Is a reboot a change? 2015-07-21 0
Who is the IT Skeptic? 2015-08-20 2
Internet discourse is becoming unreal: I can't tell a Poe from an idiot any more 2015-08-22 1
What is a DevOps role 2015-08-27 1
An important DevOps word: toolmakers 2015-09-13 1
The last application lifecycle 2015-09-22 0
A Cynefin model of ITSM support levels 2015-10-11 1
Greetings from Tuatapere 2015-12-30 0
System People Practices Partners Things 2016-02-12 2
The 3Rs: Roles Responsibilities Relationships 2016-02-28 0
How DevOps messes with your head 2016-03-01 1
What to think of the ISACA acquisition of CMMI? 2016-03-06 3
IT Operating Model 2016-03-28 6
OGC re-forms to create DevOps body of knowledge 2016-03-31 0
DevOps is only looking at one of four IT4IT value streams 2016-04-20 3
Cloud solves everything in bi-modal ... not. Cloud is one small piece of DevOps 2016-05-01 0
Service catalogue and request catalogue 2016-05-09 4
The IT Skeptic's tenth birthday post: on Optimism 2016-05-18 0
DevOps and ITIL are both ITSM 2016-05-22 1
Noble Failure 2016-05-29 0
Conflicting principles 2016-06-08 0
Challenging the operational rites 2016-06-25 1
Don't reorg for DevOps 2016-07-02 3
Who owns DevOps? 2016-07-07 3
Reflections on the DevOps Enterprise Summit UK 2016 2016-07-12 3
Great DevOps books to read 2016-07-14 5
Victims of the system 2016-07-23 3
The cult of DevOps 2016-07-30 4
Tech is the easy bit. People are hard. 2016-08-01 0
Two kinds of DevOps: horses don't grow horns 2016-08-13 1
Describe DevOps with CALMS, or I prefer CAFFS 2016-08-17 3
Great DevOps articles 2016-08-18 1
Eating the elephant 2016-08-30 0
How hard can it be? 2016-09-06 0
Railroads don't have a batch size of 1 2016-09-27 0
Get out of the way 2016-09-28 1
The two tribes of DevOps 2016-10-09 1
Axelos are the Official source of DevOps now? 2016-12-10 2
Merry Christmas from the IT Skeptic 2016-12-24 3
The IT engineering fallacy 2017-01-03 2
ITIL exam market continues to shrink 2017-01-06 0
You can't improve a cog 2017-01-19 1
Move from change control to change facilitation 2017-01-30 3
The lizard brain 2017-02-07 2
Breaking the iron triangle of faster better cheaper 2017-02-08 2
Axelos legal bullies on the rampage 2017-02-22 2
IT projects go away? #NoProjects 2017-02-25 1
Lead with DevOps 2017-03-01 0
DevOps has three parents: Lean, Agile, and ITSM 2017-03-09 3
Why companies change their ITSM tool 2017-03-10 1
Hot desks suck 2017-03-21 3
Some cultural change principles I have learned 2017-03-31 2
Standard + Case methodology to be released by US government 2017-04-01 0
Two questions to ask 2017-04-04 0
Optimising control constraints 2017-04-11 4
Customer delight is a typically geek concept 2017-04-16 1
why DevOps transformations succeed where ITSM so often doesn't 2017-04-26 0
DevOps represents the emergence of systems thinking in IT 2017-04-28 2
The business case for DevOps automation 2017-05-07 0
A key operational feedback loop for DevOps 2017-05-18 3
Change goes away 2017-05-28 2
Kill the CAB 2017-06-07 3
DevOps Enterprise Summit: humane IT 2017-06-07 0
The future of ITIL 2017-07-18 0
DevOps isn't a tool to be applied selectively 2017-07-22 1
This must never happen again 2017-07-30 1
The fatal flaw of outsourcing 2017-08-06 0
images of Lean 2017-08-20 0
Theatre 2017-08-28 0
DevOps Configuration versus ITSM CMDB 2017-09-03 3
The IT Renaissance 2017-09-15 1
A project is a wave in a product structure 2017-09-18 2
DevOps messes with your head - reprised 2017-10-16 1
VeriSM 2017-10-21 3
Two kanban boards 2017-10-24 1
Go tell it at the conference 2017-10-29 2
How do I get speaking gigs. 2017-11-08 3
Devops rediscovering service management 2017-11-13 0