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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Ian Clayton | 2 Comments on ITIL 4’s New Service Value System: Welcomed but Flawed
As an IT service management (ITSM) professional, what’s going to be important to you in 2019? On a personal level, you might be [...]
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When looking to improve you IT service desk operations and results, there are a variety of best practice methodologies, frameworks, [...]
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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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This was the situation: my customer had a dysfunctional business. It wasn’t a large company, and many employees had been there for [...]
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Daniel Breston | 3 Comments on Case Study: Using Value Stream Mapping for IT Service Improvement
Following on from my previous blogs on DevOps, service integration and management (SIAM), and Agile, here’s another “ITSM [...]
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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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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.