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Originally posted by nomadd View PostYes, you are making yourself look like a fool here. Try to read the thread before you post.
I responded to the SOA question that was posed - twice. I didn't raise the SOA discussion at all.
All clear now.
Great.
But then none of us are Enterprise Architects, are we?"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
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Originally posted by cojak View PostActually it is all clear - when I asked about SOA I meant 'Service Architecture', not 'Software Architecture' - my bad.
But then none of us are Enterprise Architects, are we?
But I stand by my original comment; the software (or the tin and wires) is not the service.Blog? What blog...?Comment
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Originally posted by nomadd View PostYou don't say..
Seriously, do you think I've been walking onto client sites for the last 30 years and just saying "buy product XYZ" and then invoicing them for £500k and walking away? I wish!
I've been delivering solutions all that time. And quite happily without ITIL.
And, as I quoted, I've the top books from the worlds best SOA experts sat on my hard drive. I've just searched them again for ITIL - and, once again, there is not a single mention of it in any of them. I guess the worlds best experts are all "wrong" too.
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I guess so.Comment
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Originally posted by Taita View PostNot really a question of being wrong ........ more a case of ITIL being a UK Public Sector standard"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
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It really isn't that hard to acquire a working knowledge of ITIL. I've got years of technical consultancy on service management projects supporting ITIL processes under my belt and I've not bothered with either courses or qualifications, I've never been asked for them either, I just walk the walk and I don't seem to have a problem talking with the business, BAs, PMs or anyone else who understands the terminology and approach, which in my opinion a lot of people who have done the courses and have no real work experience actually don't.
Of course I'm "just a techie" though. If you want to spend your life in meetings with senior management and never actually touch a computer again things might be different.Last edited by doodab; 29 April 2014, 21:05.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Originally posted by malvolio View PostWrong.The technology is not the solution, the service is.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Originally posted by doodab View PostIt depends on the level you are working at. At the end of the day without the technology there is no service.Blog? What blog...?Comment
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Originally posted by malvolio View PostNot really, I view the processes, the tin and wires, WAN/LAN,code, cloud and everything as a gestalt. No piece is any more or less important than any other. The user only sees a single entity.
At the end of the day without the technology there is no service. You can view all the technology as a whole, and say that's what makes up a service, but viewed like that the technology is the solution, just as the service is, because they are ultimately the same thing.
This is one problem I have found with pure ITIL process consultant types generally. They are very dismissive of actual technology despite the fact that without it their job wouldn't exist. Getting them to appreciate and communicate to the business the actual level of detail that needs to go into a CMDB, product catalogue or service catalogue to make it useful when you're doing an ITSM implementation can be a ******* nightmare, you usually end up having to do the job for them.Last edited by doodab; 29 April 2014, 21:39.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Ermm, no. The point is we're here to serve the various departments and what they need to run their bit of the overall business, in a controlled and efficient way with the least necessary resources and at minimal risk. It's pointless debating things like the applications are more important, you may as well argue that nothing would work without BT and whoever supplies your local electricity or which geek in Seattle came up with the best variation of SQL.
ITIL describes the end-to end service. How that is delivered requires a host of teams working in their own corner with their own necessary methodology to deliver the whole. All I do is glue the bits togetherBlog? What blog...?Comment
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