If you’ve ever worked in a manufacturing environment, then you certainly know what Work In Progress (WIP) looks like: stacks of partially-completed products waiting for the busy staff’s attention. Easy to see that those part-made things have already cost money: the investment can’t be recovered until the product is complete [...]
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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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As an IT service management (ITSM) professional you might be at arm’s length from what’s happening in the software development world. [...]
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Following on from my previous blogs on DevOps, service integration and management (SIAM), and Agile, here’s another “ITSM [...]
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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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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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It really is an exciting time to be in IT service management (ITSM) – and not just because I’m here. The accelerated development of [...]
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“The harder I practice, the luckier I get.” – Gary Player, professional golfer At the core of DevOps is learning. And DevOps [...]
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Steve Chambers | 1 Comment on How DevOps Brings High Velocity to ITSM
Imagine a river or sea separating two lands. On one side is the “Land of IT” and on the other is the “Land of Business and Customer.” A [...]
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There are Three Ways of DevOps, three principles that underpin all other DevOps patterns. The DevOps Second Way is to “Amplify Feedback [...]
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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.