Directory of blog entries

Title Date Createdsort icon Hits today
The IT Skeptic retires 2019-12-29 4
Shrödinger’s reboot 2019-12-12 11
SAFe ain't all bad 2019-12-12 5
Imagine bringing humanity to work 2019-11-30 8
The Summoner 2019-11-29 7
Limitations of the industrial manufacturing paradigm, including Lean and ToC. 2019-11-13 7
I can't get excited about ITIL4 2019-11-05 7
The secret to easy organisational change: hacking the org. 2019-10-23 4
Separating out work and personnel management 2019-10-18 4
Agile hasn't jumped the shark, it has just escaped the pond. 2019-10-11 4
Kill the restructure 2019-09-26 10
Forget the Fullstack 2019-09-15 2
Bringing Humanity to Work 2019-09-14 1
Playing a piano is easy 2019-09-14 3
The dysfunctions of transformation 2019-09-13 0
The purpose of IT 2019-09-07 23
Fractured Agile 2019-09-02 1
The work Renaissance 2019-08-31 3
Anybody still visit this blog without being linked to a post from social media? 2019-08-28 13
Self-organising traffic 2019-07-26 3
how much nice is too much? 2019-07-14 2
Chaos drives innovation 2019-05-25 1
Happy 13th Birthday to me 2019-05-16 1
Headroom 2019-05-15 0
Open space for leadership 2019-05-14 1
Kill the CAB some more 2019-05-12 0
Agile continual improvement 2019-05-05 1
Treat staff like adults and equals 2019-03-28 0
Firing people is always a last resort. 2019-02-07 0
My changing mind 2019-01-27 1
Kill the ticket 2019-01-26 1
Automation is for the best 2019-01-22 22
The Five Ways of Devops 2018-12-06 1
A standardised work management tool? 2018-11-18 6
Agile Procurement 2018-11-02 3
Climate change 2018-10-10 3
New Ways Of Managing 2018-10-09 3
Why Theory of Constraints seems a poor model for IT 2018-09-14 2
Just enough documentation of practices 2018-08-18 0
Velocity through quality 2018-07-28 1
Overcoming the dysfunctions of IT project management 2018-07-04 1
The oxymoron of agile project management 2018-06-18 5
Integrity and ethics in IT 2018-06-13 0
Mincing money: the boundary between Agile and project funding 2018-06-06 2
A layman's definition of Devops 2018-06-06 2
Challenge the level of ceremony in process 2018-06-05 0
DevOps Balanced Scorecard Dashboard 2018-06-05 2
The Knowledge Academy 2018-05-29 5
Ten agile principles that screw up conventional project management 2018-05-28 2
The IT Skeptic's 12th birthday 2018-05-16 1
The latest IT fad: SRE 2018-05-13 2
What does going fast mean? 2018-05-12 0
The Two Fingers protocol 2018-04-23 2
Does DevOps eliminate any ITSM processes? 2018-04-18 0
More AI hype from CIO.com 2018-04-10 0
New Ways of Working: Agile, Devops; do you get it? 2018-04-10 7
Apocalyptic bullshit 2018-03-23 0
Lessons the world took from ITIL 2018-03-18 3
ITIL processes aren't processes 2018-02-09 0
Technology changes nothing. 2018-02-05 0
In praise of silence 2018-02-05 3
The tension between velocity and agility 2018-02-04 1
Don't go DevOps with a big bang 2018-01-26 1
Project management was the worst thing that ever happened to IT 2017-12-05 1
DevOps offers hope for the future of IT 2017-11-16 2
Devops rediscovering service management 2017-11-13 0
How do I get speaking gigs. 2017-11-08 3
Go tell it at the conference 2017-10-29 2
Two kanban boards 2017-10-24 1
VeriSM 2017-10-21 3
DevOps messes with your head - reprised 2017-10-16 1
A project is a wave in a product structure 2017-09-18 2
The IT Renaissance 2017-09-15 1
DevOps Configuration versus ITSM CMDB 2017-09-03 3
Theatre 2017-08-28 0
images of Lean 2017-08-20 0
The fatal flaw of outsourcing 2017-08-06 0
This must never happen again 2017-07-30 1
DevOps isn't a tool to be applied selectively 2017-07-22 1
The future of ITIL 2017-07-18 0
DevOps Enterprise Summit: humane IT 2017-06-07 0
Kill the CAB 2017-06-07 3
Change goes away 2017-05-28 2
A key operational feedback loop for DevOps 2017-05-18 3
The business case for DevOps automation 2017-05-07 0
DevOps represents the emergence of systems thinking in IT 2017-04-28 2
why DevOps transformations succeed where ITSM so often doesn't 2017-04-26 0
Customer delight is a typically geek concept 2017-04-16 1
Optimising control constraints 2017-04-11 4
Two questions to ask 2017-04-04 0
Standard + Case methodology to be released by US government 2017-04-01 0
Some cultural change principles I have learned 2017-03-31 2
Hot desks suck 2017-03-21 3
Why companies change their ITSM tool 2017-03-10 1
DevOps has three parents: Lean, Agile, and ITSM 2017-03-09 3
Lead with DevOps 2017-03-01 0
IT projects go away? #NoProjects 2017-02-25 1
Axelos legal bullies on the rampage 2017-02-22 2
Breaking the iron triangle of faster better cheaper 2017-02-08 2
The lizard brain 2017-02-07 2
Move from change control to change facilitation 2017-01-30 3
You can't improve a cog 2017-01-19 1
ITIL exam market continues to shrink 2017-01-06 0
The IT engineering fallacy 2017-01-03 2
Merry Christmas from the IT Skeptic 2016-12-24 3
Axelos are the Official source of DevOps now? 2016-12-10 2
The two tribes of DevOps 2016-10-09 1
Get out of the way 2016-09-28 1
Railroads don't have a batch size of 1 2016-09-27 0
How hard can it be? 2016-09-06 0
Eating the elephant 2016-08-30 0
Great DevOps articles 2016-08-18 1
Describe DevOps with CALMS, or I prefer CAFFS 2016-08-17 3
Two kinds of DevOps: horses don't grow horns 2016-08-13 1
Tech is the easy bit. People are hard. 2016-08-01 0
The cult of DevOps 2016-07-30 4
Victims of the system 2016-07-23 3
Great DevOps books to read 2016-07-14 5
Reflections on the DevOps Enterprise Summit UK 2016 2016-07-12 3
Who owns DevOps? 2016-07-07 3
Don't reorg for DevOps 2016-07-02 3
Challenging the operational rites 2016-06-25 1
Conflicting principles 2016-06-08 0
Noble Failure 2016-05-29 0
DevOps and ITIL are both ITSM 2016-05-22 1
The IT Skeptic's tenth birthday post: on Optimism 2016-05-18 0
Service catalogue and request catalogue 2016-05-09 4
Cloud solves everything in bi-modal ... not. Cloud is one small piece of DevOps 2016-05-01 0
DevOps is only looking at one of four IT4IT value streams 2016-04-20 3
OGC re-forms to create DevOps body of knowledge 2016-03-31 0
IT Operating Model 2016-03-28 6
What to think of the ISACA acquisition of CMMI? 2016-03-06 3
How DevOps messes with your head 2016-03-01 1
The 3Rs: Roles Responsibilities Relationships 2016-02-28 0
System People Practices Partners Things 2016-02-12 2
Greetings from Tuatapere 2015-12-30 0
A Cynefin model of ITSM support levels 2015-10-11 1
The last application lifecycle 2015-09-22 0
An important DevOps word: toolmakers 2015-09-13 1
What is a DevOps role 2015-08-27 1
Internet discourse is becoming unreal: I can't tell a Poe from an idiot any more 2015-08-22 1
Who is the IT Skeptic? 2015-08-20 2
Is a reboot a change? 2015-07-21 0
No such thing as Root Cause 2015-07-09 2
Social media discourse degenerates 2015-07-01 1
ITSM emphasis on aligning underpinning contracts with SLAs 2015-06-17 1
An interesting tale of ITIL trademarks 2015-06-06 4
ISACA Bylaws change 2015 2015-06-03 0
The IT Liberation Movement - an IT Renaissance 2015-05-26 3
Things ITSM consultants hear 2015-05-25 0