December 13, 2017 Who doesn’t love the holidays? The feeling of goodwill, the great TV, seeing friends and family. How awesome is the holiday period? But here’s the thing, when the first week of work post-holidays rolls around, having chocolate for breakfast and drinking your own body weight in alcohol will become a distant memory once [...]
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December 6, 2017 In the IT service management (ITSM) world there’s often talk of the need for configuration management and configuration management [...]
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November 29, 2017 Aha, the highly-effective series continues. Release management is often a misunderstood process, or capability, with the dividing line [...]
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November 22, 2017 DevOps isn’t just about development, the creation of new code and capabilities, there’s also the need to release to the production [...]
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November 1, 2017 Configuration management and the configuration management database (CMDB) should play a key part in the IT service management (ITSM) [...]
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October 25, 2017 IT asset management (ITAM) is a powerful IT management activity that saves your organization time and money and minimizes risk; but all [...]
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October 18, 2017 Public cloud has come a long way since we were all worried about the levels of security and availability associated with the delivery [...]
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October 11, 2017 It’s always fun to sit and talk with 2nd line support folks – the ones who actually understand the technological whatsits and [...]
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October 4, 2017 Knowledge management is playing an increasingly important part in the IT service management (ITSM) ecosystem, and in keeping businesses [...]
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September 27, 2017 Oftentimes it’s the every day things I do in my life that teach me about service management. So let me tell you what happened this [...]
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September 20, 2017 DevOps? ITIL? DevOps versus ITIL? There’s still lots of talk around which approach companies should take. But thankfully, there’s a [...]
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September 13, 2017 If you’ve ever worked in a manufacturing environment, then you certainly know what Work In Progress (WIP) looks like: stacks of [...]
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August 30, 2017 Many companies still need to manage their software asset investments better – to reduce risks and financial “wastage.” It can be a huge [...]
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