For around a decade now, businesses have been moving their software into cloud-based hosting at an ever increasing rate. This is not only because the affordability and reliability of cloud has significantly improved, but also because it has become far more widely understood that on-premise and internally hosted software has [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.