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 shaped to throw the ball, the dog ran off in the direction it expected the ball to go. Usually this was the wrong direction, because the dog owner then (knowingly) threw the […]
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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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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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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 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 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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December 14, 2016 Is your organization thinking about creating a service catalog and service request catalog (or starting over with it again)? It can be [...]
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November 17, 2016 Really, what IS customer experience (or CX for short)? Most explanations refer to a customer interacting with a business and its [...]
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September 7, 2016 IT service management (ITSM) is constantly evolving, and over the 20 or so years that the term has been in common use, the scope has [...]
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