The Skeptical Informer, January 2008, Volume 2, No. 1

in

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

Happy New Year everyone. December was a bit slow on the blog as I slogged away in a serious 24x7 operational role for the first time in years, but I look forward to a cracking 2008 now I return to fulltime blogging.



I had hoped that we might have the final seventh Executive Board member elected for itSMF International as news for this edition of the newsletter. But we don't.



We do however have the interesting spectacle of the itSMF International website transitioning to a new site. Spectacle? Well it wouldn't be itSMFI if it happened gracefully and seamlessly would it? The old site is gone, and hastily I might add. But the new site won't be ready until February. We have a "holding" arrangement in the interim.



So why did the old site have to shut down when the new one will be ready in a month or two?



Because itSMFI "have been informed that the current 3rd party support, for the current website, will be withdrawn from December 31st 2007." If you wonder what lies behind this, I have had indications that a key player in the ITSM world is withdrawing from the itSMF community, presumably in disgust at the shennanigans that I have been reporting on throughout 2007. That person provided the itSMFI with website hosting.



I suggest this is the tip of the iceberg. The IT Swami predicts:



More volunteers will be unwilling to contribute their efforts to an organisation that is so overtly supporting the commercial ITIL industry rather than the practice of service management, let alone the practitioners.



More practitioners will regard itSMF with apathy and disinterest as they see less personal value from it.



More and more, itSMF will depend on the contributions of those with a vested interest in doing so.




Sigh. There goes one of my New Year's resolutions, blown already.





Note for those paying attention: there is no December 2007 edition of the Skeptical Informer. I skipped it so that I now publish at the start of the month instead of a few days following the end of the month.



The theme for this month's pictures is of course "circus".

n/a
Features
Announcing the IT Skeptic Awards for 2007
n/a
ITIL is the hitchhiker's guide, COBIT is the encyclopaedia
n/a

Messages
Subscribe now
n/a
Spread the word
n/a


Recent podcasts
ITIL is the hitchhiker's guide - The IT Skeptic
n/a
Classic Skeptic
Living without CMDB
n/a
From the blog
the IT Skeptic's New Year's Resolutions
n/a
Merry Christmas from the IT Skeptic
n/a
A dozen IT Service Management and ITIL Forums
n/a
itSMF International launch an online discussion forum.
n/a
Is ITIL Version 3 "Strategy Generation" a mystery process?
n/a
Selected comments
n/a