It’s finally arrived – ITIL 4. And with it, we see the demise and laying to rest of the venerable and frankly vulnerable service lifecycle. It was never really a requirement for many and was exposed for its product lifecycle origins of the 1980s by the digital-ready DevOps movement. We also see the relegation of […]
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Yes, I’m still writing about the three ways of DevOps. Following on from my earlier blogs about using the DevOps first and second ways [...]
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Following on from my blog about using the DevOps first way to improve ITIL change and release practices by increasing flow, my latest [...]
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Whether your organization is planning to stay with ITIL v3 for a while or to quickly move to ITIL 4’s new view of IT service management [...]
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ITIL is often called the most popular framework for IT service management (ITSM) but its last update was in 2011 which, when we [...]
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The last 12 months has seen a variety of refreshes in the IT service management (ITSM) industry: an updated COBIT, a new VeriSM book, [...]
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You might have noticed that something changed with the Force, sorry ITIL, last month – with the ITIL 4 update releasing its first [...]
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What happened to 2018? It’s probably my age – I’m older than I look – but we seem to be clocking up the years in IT service management [...]
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Update since publication: The latest version of ITIL – ITIL 4 – was released on Monday 18th February. To find out what is actually [...]
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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.