Chicken ITle

Meet Chicken ITle

Submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2013-06-22 00:06


Chicken ITle: calling out the IT miserablists


Chicken ITle draws our attention to those who announce catastrophic consequences for IT if we don't all rush off and do something. Usually these sky-falling folk are either analysts or vendors, because both profit from fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD).

Yes that is spelt right. It is pronounced "ittle" or "eye-tee-il" if you want, and it is a conflation of "IT" and "little".

The Chicken ITles are at work on IT project success rates

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2014-08-15 03:12

Did you know Standish Chaos reports ("70% of IT projects fail") have been well discredited? No? Stop using the numbers. We're bad at IT projects but we're not that bad. And considering what we're up against, perhaps we're not that bad at all.

Attention-seeking declarations of death

Submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2013-09-02 09:31

We regularly hear how something in IT "is dead". Almost invariably it isn't. IT isn't dead. Email certainly isn't, although its demise is announced fairly regularly. They're attention-seeking. Ignore them.

My apologies to Forrester

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2013-06-21 23:50

© Copyright Canstock Photo IncOops, sorry. I accused Forrester of repeatedly doing Chicken ITle articles, when in fact only the latest one was by Forrester and the previous instance - on Service Desk - was Gartner Killing the Help Desk Softly - or Blowing It Up.

Let's not underestimate the resilience of people and societies

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2013-05-29 11:16

Luddites react against technology because they lack vision. It's not their fault they can't foresee the future. Nobody can. But in every single other technology shift, entrepreneurs found a use for idle labour, and the efficiencies of technology meant there was new wealth to buy those new services. Don't fear the robot.

Chicken ITle, robots, and a chessboard

Submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2013-04-08 21:27

© Copyright Canstock Photo IncToday our new blog character returns. Chicken ITle draws our attention to those who announce catastrophic consequences for IT if we don't all rush off and do something. Usually these sky-falling folk are either analysts or vendors, because both profit from fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD). But sometimes they are book authors, pumping a book.

Chicken ITle calls out the end of Service Desk

Submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2013-03-27 23:41

© Can Stock Photo As part of my ongoing theme of Slow IT, I'm introducing a new character to the blog, Chicken ITle (how appropriate just before Easter). Chicken ITle draws our attention to those who announce catastrophic consequences for IT if we don't all rush off and do something. Usually these sky-falling folk are either analysts or vendors, because both profit from fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD).

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