“The harder I practice, the luckier I get.” – Gary Player, professional golfer At the core of DevOps is learning. And DevOps stands on the shoulders of many giants, with one of those giants being the Toyota Way from which DevOps borrows concepts such as Kata, which helps people, teams, and organizations to improve, [...]
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A service level agreement, commonly known as an SLA, is an agreement that outlines the expectations of both sides in a service [...]
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The heart of any IT service management (ITSM) program is the need to add value to business operations – to make the business more [...]
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Four and a half years is a long time in technology, but sadly not so much in IT service management (ITSM). Rather scarily, thinking [...]
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It’s important to be good at what you do. In practice that means striving to get better and better. This is a popular attitude and [...]
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When people think about software-as-a-service (SaaS) and IT service management (ITSM), they immediately think of a “hosted ITSM tool,” [...]
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Imagine a river or sea separating two lands. On one side is the “Land of IT” and on the other is the “Land of Business and Customer.” A [...]
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I recently worked with a service management organisation (in the manufacturing sector) that wanted to improve their service delivery. [...]
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For me it was a constant source of bafflement in projects – why does the obvious seem so out of reach when we look at applying IT [...]
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There are Three Ways of DevOps, three principles that underpin all other DevOps patterns. The DevOps Second Way is to “Amplify Feedback [...]
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We have all had, or have heard about, IT horror stories that have caused businesses to go into unplanned panic (and most likely to be [...]
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In ITIL 2011 – an IT service management (ITSM) best practice framework – there’s five books covering nearly thirty ITSM processes. And [...]
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Everyone understands the need for availability of services. I mean, we all want our power services to be there, right? OK, maybe some [...]
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So in case you hadn't worked it out yet, I'm Joe! Hello there. I'm a native New Yorker and I love everything connected to IT service management (ITSM). I'm a passionate blogger and Twitter addict, and I'm also the resident IT guy at SysAid Technologies.