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The Skeptical Informer, November 2007, Volume 1, No. 10

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The newsletter of the IT Skeptic. All the IT skeptical news that is fit to print... and then some!

Fatigue took its toll on the IT Skeptic this month. I would like to think it didn't show but I suspect it did. If so, my apologies for any dip in quality or frequency of content.

The month was marked mainly by a new flurry of itSMF silliness. I know I know. I'm as over it as you are, but when the guy who is the business partner of the person who wrote the book which didn't need IPESC review even though the other five did, gets elected chair of the same IPESC even though he only sits on IPESC as an invited representative of itSMF not as a nominated country member, just after his partner got elected chair of itSMF International in a hasty election by six sevenths of the Board who had been elected in an election where 42% of nominees were rejected ... well what am I to do? Ignore it? Now I'm not suggesting there is anything illegal, immoral or fattening in any of this, but it is silly. Such lack of good governance from an organisation like itSMF is farcical. And that's not all of it: there is plenty more.

The thing I find most fascinating is the contrast with brother organisation ISACA. Look for a blog in December where I take a fresh perspective on this contrast. We will actually manage to find an upside to all the itSMF slapstick.

Then there is more to explore. As I said on the blog recently, in the past the IT Skeptic has examined such topics as Web 2.0, call centres , VOIP and open source. I'd like to do more but ITIL and itSMF provide such fertile fields. Something to do with what they sprinkle on them...

Elsewhere I've also looked at topics as diverse as geeks, technological complexity, mindless faith in computers, professional mediocrity, corporate "training", and best practice.

The blog will diversify in 2008... promise.

The theme for this month's pictures is "silly"

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The role vendors play in the ITIL community
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The ITIL world descends into farce
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Many ITIL projects are overcapitalised renovations
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From the blog
Great myths of ITIL #1: "You can't manage what you can't measure".
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Five reasons ITIL Version 3 is not "Best Practice"
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ST p223 CAB/EC to ECAB

The 'not-so-obvious' V2 abbreviation of CAB/EC (CAB Emergency committee) for the subset of CAB taking decisions on emergency changes is changed to EmergencyCAB or ECAB. No objections to that.

Note: Even I saw a question on this in the foundation paper regarding who authorizes emergency changes - where both the options were given!! If you missed this change in V3, you (I mean V2 aware people) can rest assured that you lost one mark!

Now about the inconsistency:

itSMF publish their list of ITIL Version 3 processes
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Malcolm Fry swaps sides
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Good advice for those on the receiving end of the IT Skeptic's comments
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The itSMF voting saga: who is Julie Linden?
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