Enterprise Devops gets “stuck in the middle”, but legacy tech is not the reasonI work with many large enterprises. Most of them made a start with DevOps at some point in the last few years. Most of those have not yet…Apr 15, 2023Apr 15, 2023
Don’t overcategorise incidentsToday I saw someone’s post, in an ITSM-focused group on Facebook, which sought to define the difference between “network incidents” and…Jul 28, 2022Jul 28, 2022
Service Mangement still matters in a Microservices architectureIn July 2022, I saw an interesting and lively Twitter discussion in which a number of people debated how architecture impacted the burden…Jul 22, 2022Jul 22, 2022
Does the Fastly outage justify “Single Point of Failure” headlines?Probably not.Jun 8, 2021Jun 8, 2021
Complex Adaptive Systems (ii): thinking about emergence and ITSM(This is part two of a series exploring Complexity Science and the concept of complex adaptive systems in the context of ITSM. The first…Sep 4, 2020Sep 4, 2020
Service Desk agents are often Swarming already, even if their leadership doesn’t knowThe UK’s Times Newspaper recently broke a story (paywall) alleging personal data breaches by members of the country’s new and…Jul 28, 2020Jul 28, 2020
Complex Adaptive Systems and ITSMThe increasing complexity of digital systems necessitates new perspectives and practice.Apr 30, 20201Apr 30, 20201
Lessons from the TSB failure: a perfect storm of waterfall failuresIt was interesting to read recently that TSB, the British bank which made headlines for the wrong reasons with a cataclysmic IT migration…Feb 18, 20202Feb 18, 20202
Published inIT RevolutionControl, Enablement? Why a word mattersBy the time Axelos released the foundational level of ITIL 4, in February 2019, a major change to the ITIL framework was long overdue…Nov 15, 2019Nov 15, 2019
DevOps and containerisation: echoes from the pastI presented yesterday (June 27th 2019) at the excellent DevOps Enterprise Summit, in London. The presentation is here and I’ll link the…Jun 28, 2019Jun 28, 2019