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change management by Rob SpencerJun 26, 20161:00 pmJune 26, 2016
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All the rituals but no results: cargo cult change management

At the end of the second world war, the inhabitants of several pacific islands thought that if they emulated the behaviours of the colonists and forces personnel they had been observing and interacting with, they […]

release management by Rob SpencerJan 6, 20166:01 amJune 25, 2016
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#toolhacking for fun and ITSM – Release Planning with Trello

I love Trello. For those unfamiliar, Trello is a SaaS kanban board / taskboard. It’s free (mostly) and is virtually idiot-proof to set up and start using. You don’t have to adopt the kanban methodology […]

ITIL by Rob SpencerJun 22, 20157:56 pm

The ITIL Manifesto v1.0

The ITIL Manifesto is available here: The ITILManifesto 1.0 In my last post, I said we were going to have a vote on distilled principles, but we didn’t get many, so I’ve included all of […]

Uncategorized by Rob SpencerMay 9, 20155:26 pm

Publishing an ITIL Manifesto

The ITIL Manifesto initiative has been running for a little under a year. We have: 107 ideas grouped 6 ways to align with the 6 ITIL value propositions A draft vision/mission statement We don’t have: […]

ITIL by Rob SpencerSep 17, 20142:26 pmSeptember 17, 2014

The ITIL Manifesto – what it is and why you should get involved

A few weeks ago, a discussion on twitter led to the suggestion of an ITIL Manifesto. An attempt to codify and simplify the core tenets of ITIL from the triple perspectives of experience, theory and […]

concepts by Claire BroadleyJun 12, 201412:18 pmJune 28, 2014

Knowledge Management: the Importance of Closed Loop Feedback

In business, data is always an asset. Information is an essential. Knowledge and wisdom are the key outputs of both. As a business grows, it should harvest good quality data and information that form shared […]

concepts by Rob SpencerJun 5, 20147:49 amJune 5, 2014

The real problem with frequent emergency changes

Changes are decisions, balancing risk and reward. In the language of Decision Theory, they are classed as normative or prescriptive decisions (i.e. identifying the best decision to take) which rely on access to good information […]

Uncategorized by Rob SpencerMay 18, 20141:39 pmMay 18, 2014

New ITSM Events listing site

Having read a few posts on various social media sites about people looking for combined lists of ITSM events and not finding much apart from the vendors’ own sites, I decided to make one. Bear […]

ITIL by Rob SpencerApr 10, 20148:00 amApril 10, 2014

Becoming an ITIL Expert

The ITIL® Expert qualification, the penultimate award in the ITIL stack, is not easy, but it is achievable, and if you put in the study time, and pay attention, then it is fairly straightforward. Contrary […]

release management by Rob SpencerApr 5, 201412:12 pm

DevOps and ITIL: Continuous Delivery doesn’t stop at software

DevOps. The next saviour of the world. A combination of agile delivery and super-effective provisioning scripts with a sprinkling of software-defined (virtual) infrastructure. Whilst ITIL v3 and 2011 seem (on the surface at least) to […]

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