March 30, 2017 If extra-terrestrial intelligence reached Planet Earth, landing in your IT service management (ITSM) department and started to look around, what would they see, and what would they think was the job of said ITSM team? I think that in most companies, our alien friends would see lots of busy people, rushing around doing [...]
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March 22, 2017 I’m old enough such that my IT career began long before popular IT “movements” or frameworks – whether that be IT management or IT [...]
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March 15, 2017 In my previous blog, I recounted how I had recently finished the book The Bassoon King by Rainn Wilson and how the ten life lessons or [...]
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March 8, 2017 I recently finished the book The Bassoon King by Rainn Wilson. Wilson, best known for his portrayal of Dwight Schrute from the US [...]
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March 1, 2017 It was over one hundred years ago that Taylorism, or scientific management, reached its peak of influence as the go-to management and [...]
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February 22, 2017 For those of us in the IT service management (ITSM) space, DevOps appeared on our scene around five years ago. And at that time, to [...]
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February 15, 2017 Warning: If you were born without a sense of humor, or have had it surgically removed at some point in your life, please click away [...]
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February 9, 2017 If you’ve attended an ITIL Foundation course, you’ll remember learning about emergency changes, and the role of the ECAB – the [...]
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February 1, 2017 In IT, one of our biggest (maybe even our favorite?) grumble, every year, is how the business expects us to deliver more for less. So [...]
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January 25, 2017 Have you ever thought about the truly basic concepts underpinning continual service improvement (CSI)? Let’s take a look at the words [...]
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January 18, 2017 As more companies move to adopt DevOps practices to improve IT performance (my company included), I was thinking to myself – is it [...]
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January 11, 2017 IT service management (ITSM) and ITIL, the most commonly adopted ITSM best practice framework, are both full of terminology. Just look [...]
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January 4, 2017 It really is an exciting time to be in IT service management (ITSM) – and not just because I’m here. The accelerated development of [...]
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