July 12, 2017 As an IT service management (ITSM) professional you might be at arm’s length from what’s happening in the software development world. You appreciate that there’s a lot of change and innovation happening but when it gets talked about you might not necessarily understand everything that’s being said. Of course, you could rely [...]
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July 5, 2017 For around a decade now, businesses have been moving their software into cloud-based hosting at an ever increasing rate. This is not [...]
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June 28, 2017 Change managers wear a number of different hats in ensuring that changes to the corporate IT estate are applied in a speedy, yet [...]
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June 21, 2017 Public cloud services affect more than the traditional on-premise IT infrastructure. They also affect the people that deliver and [...]
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June 14, 2017 We’ve been hearing more and more about Business Relationship Management (BRM), and for good reason. BRM has been defined as ‘a formal [...]
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June 7, 2017 Incident management plays a key part in the IT service management ecosystem and in keeping businesses running. But what are the key [...]
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May 31, 2017 If you’ve been following my blogs (or even if you’re just a savvy IT professional like yours truly), then you know that ITIL® offers us [...]
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May 24, 2017 Yesterday I walked home through the park and watched someone throwing around a ball with his dog. Literally every time the guy first [...]
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May 17, 2017 Following on from my previous blogs on DevOps, service integration and management (SIAM), and Agile, here’s another “ITSM [...]
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May 10, 2017 As an IT service management (ITSM) professional, which public cloud “camp” are you in: Cloud is great? Cloud is a disaster? Couldn’t [...]
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May 3, 2017 In Part 1 of this blog I offered five tips for getting started with ITIL, the IT service management (ITSM) best practice framework: [...]
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April 26, 2017 Some people panic when they hear the word ITIL – either because of memories of previous painful, or failed, ITIL adoption projects, or [...]
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April 5, 2017 If configuration management is about capturing, maintaining, and using information about your assets, then every organization has some [...]
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