tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59656338778915055432024-03-08T08:06:46.557-08:00The IT Skeptic's RealIT RadioA podcast by the IT Skeptic. RealIT Radio applies a cold firehose of reality to the overheated IT industry, especially around IT management, ITSM, ITIL, DevOps, Agile...The IT Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07599923113995233190noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965633877891505543.post-4265291926078573002014-10-18T04:18:00.001-07:002014-10-18T04:24:17.898-07:00The IT Skeptic's RealIT Radio Episode 6: Personal Digital Experience<br />
(21 minutes) Don't confuse your personal digital experience with business. Your personal experience of the worlds of technology toys, tech bling, and personal computing do not tell us about how the world of business will change in response to technology.<br />
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When we talk about the impact of technology on business can we please talk about business. What technology does to your personal life or your new little company or some tablet-maker is simply not illuminating when we consider large complex established organisations - in realIT.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Or </span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/theitskeptic/realit-radio-episode-6-personal-digital-experience" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">on Soundcloud</a><br />
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Follow me on Twitter @theitskeptic<br />
Or on the blog www.itskeptic.org. Links to RealIT Radio from there.<br />
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This episode on the blog:<br />
[Skeptical Informer newsletter] <a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/content/2012-3-dont-confuse-your-personal-digital-experience-business" target="_blank">2012 #3 Don't confuse your personal digital experience with business</a></div>
<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/content/users-who-dont-it" target="_blank">The users who don't like IT</a><br />
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The IT Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07599923113995233190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965633877891505543.post-78531030962688433422014-10-04T03:25:00.002-07:002014-10-04T03:26:23.652-07:00The IT Skeptic's RealIT Radio Episode 5: Governance of IT<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">In this fifth episode of RealIT Radio we look at the most findamental problem facing IT today: Governance of IT... or rather the lack of it.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"> (30 minutes)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Or </span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/theitskeptic/realit-radio-episode-5" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">on Soundcloud</a><br />
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Or on the blog www.itskeptic.org. Links to RealIT Radio from there.<br />
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This episode on the blog:<br />
<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/organisations-have-failed-their-it-bad-parents" target="_blank">Organisations have failed their IT like bad parents</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/content/governors-govern" target="_blank">Governors govern</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/content/dark-it" target="_blank">Dark IT</a></div>
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The IT Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07599923113995233190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965633877891505543.post-51204544685853313632014-09-08T04:02:00.003-07:002014-09-08T04:03:02.157-07:00The IT Skeptic's RealIT Radio Episode 4: Technology is over-rated<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.479999542236328px;">In the fourth episode of RealIT Radio I talk about my pet hate: technology - why it's overrated, overvalued, under-estimated.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.479999542236328px;"> (30 minutes)</span></span></span><br />
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Or on the blog www.itskeptic.org. Links to RealIT Radio from there.<br />
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This episode on the blog:
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<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/content/nett-result-new-technology" target="_blank">The nett result of new technology</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/transformational-technologies-are-small-view" target="_blank">Transformational technologies are a small view</a></div>
<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/node/77" target="_blank">Technology does not fix process</a><br />
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The IT Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07599923113995233190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965633877891505543.post-4667810840905478002014-08-09T00:26:00.002-07:002014-08-09T00:29:08.250-07:00The IT Skeptic's RealIT Radio Episode 3: The Real Problem with IT (and ITSM)<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.479999542236328px;">In the third episode of RealIT Radio we explore the real problem with Real IT - the underpinning cause of so many of our dysfunctions and challenges</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Trebuchet MS, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.479999542236328px;">. Then we look more specifically at IT Service management (ITSM) and the fundamental problem with the ITSM industry, and the main problem with ITSM approach or method. (30 minutes)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;">Or </span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/theitskeptic/the-it-skeptics-realit-radio-episode-3-the-real-problem-with-it-and-itsm" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.479999542236328px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">on Soundcloud</a><br />
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Or on the blog www.itskeptic.org. Links to RealIT Radio from there.<br />
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This episode on the blog:<br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/content/thoughts-smcongress#solutions" target="_blank">The problems of IT and ITSM</a> (most of what this podcast covers)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/organisations-have-failed-their-it-bad-parents" target="_blank">Organisations have failed their IT like a bad parent</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/content/meet-middle-slow-it-and-fast-it" target="_blank">Meet in the middle</a></span><br />
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The IT Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07599923113995233190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965633877891505543.post-15360385885329404372014-07-30T21:54:00.000-07:002014-07-30T21:55:28.692-07:00The IT Skeptic's RealIT Radio Episode 2: Overheating ITIn this second episode of RealIT Radio we look at the state of today's Real IT - it's overheated. <br />
A fixation with novelty and innovation as seemingly the sole sources of business value drives a need for speed that is pushing IT to the edge and putting organisations at risk. (30 minutes)<br />
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Here is the podcast: <a href="http://itskeptic.org/public/realitradio/RealIT_Radio_episode_2.mp3" target="_blank">RealIT Radio Episode 2</a><br />
Or <a href="https://soundcloud.com/theitskeptic/realit-radio-episode-2">on Soundcloud</a><br />
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Follow me on Twitter @theitskeptic<br />
Or on the blog www.itskeptic.org. Links to RealIT Radio from there.<br />
Subscribe to the RealIT Radio podcast feed here <a alt="The IT Skeptic podcast" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/RealITRadio" title="The IT Skeptic podcast"> <img src="http://www.itskeptic.org/misc/feed.png" /></a><br />
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This episode on the blog:<br />
<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/content/mad-competitive-scramble">The mad competitive scramble</a><br />
<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/it-project-portfolios-are-bursting-while-bau-crumb">Drowning in projects</a><br />
<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/few-swallows-cloud-are-not-altering-landscape">Vendor and analyst hype</a><br />
<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/cloud-distraction-its-day-job">An undisciplined rabble of kids</a><br />
E<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/content/chicken-itle-robots-and-chessboard">xponential systems and rice on the chessboard</a><br />
<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/content/2012-3-dont-confuse-your-personal-digital-experience-business">Confusing personal digital experience with business</a>The IT Skeptichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07599923113995233190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965633877891505543.post-8827427419389605892014-07-25T21:12:00.000-07:002014-07-26T14:55:15.787-07:00The IT Skeptic's RealIT Radio Episode 1: Real ITWelcome to the first episode of a new series of podcasts from the IT Skeptic in which I introduce the series and pretty much lay out a manifesto for Real IT (30 minutes)<br />
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Here it is <a href="http://itskeptic.org/public/realitradio/RealIT_Radio_1.mp3">RealIT Radio episode 1</a><br />
Find me on twitter @theitskeptic<br />
or on <a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/" target="_blank">the IT Skeptic blog at itskeptic.org</a><br />
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IT Skeptic podcasts started in 2006!! <a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/node/65" target="_blank">The first one is here</a><br />
In all there are 59 of them, mostly short, reading a blog post.<br />
There is <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheItSkepticsPodcasts" target="_blank">a feed for them here</a><br />
I sound <a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/node/1170" target="_blank">distinctly creepy</a> in some of them :)<br />
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If you dont want to listen to the podcast,<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/" target="_blank"> its all on the blog</a><br />
<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/content/real-it-realit-information-technology" target="_blank">Real IT</a><br />
<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/content/it-protect-and-serve" target="_blank">To Protect and Serve</a><br />
<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/how-business-has-failed-it-bad-parent" target="_blank">Governance of IT</a><br />
<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/slow-IT" target="_blank">Overheating: the need for Slow IT</a><br />
<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/content/mad-competitive-scramble" target="_blank">Competitiveness</a><br />
<a href="http://www.itskeptic.org/content/chicken-itle-robots-and-chessboard" target="_blank">Pace of technological change</a><br />
<a href="http://www.basicsm.com/kamu" target="_blank">DevOps Enterprise</a><br />
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