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I can’t even recall how many times I’ve been in this situation:  A new release goes out and several new features aren’t working properly.  Worse yet, existing functionality is now compromised.  This was a common occurrence during my incident management days, and I hear about it throughout the IT Service Management world.  The absolute worst […]

****** Non-Spoiler Alert ****** If you’re reading The Phoenix Project and are sitting on the edge of your seat, just waiting to know the outcome, then…feel free to keep reading this post.  This is a novel about IT, and there’s certainly no reason to think it doesn’t have a bit (or a lot) of fantasy […]

Dearest Microsoft Outlook,   We’ve been together since, wow…it’s been so long I almost can’t remember…at least since the year 2000, when I began my first IT job at Chemical Abstracts.  Ok, so we did frolic together a little before that time, but those were personal POP email addresses and it didn’t really count.  No, […]

It’s been a while since I’ve written a post, and honestly, it’s because life as a consultant in the ITSM world keeps me damn busy.  Alas, it’s that time again where I’m switching employers.  Fortunately, and now unfortunately, I had the chance to work with my original “ITSM Crew” from several years ago. Since my […]