Category Archives: Technology Trends

Using Agile to Ignite Your ITSM Projects

By Dick Stark Last Wednesday, Sam Wood and I presented a webinar entitled, “Using Agile to Ignite Your ITSM projects.” We discussed the advantages of using Agile as the framework for Remedy ITSM implementations. Sam should know. He implemented Remedy and … Continue reading

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DevOps is the Bimodal Bridge

By Dick Stark Last week bmc emailed its customer base a Gartner Reprint entitled, DevOps is the Bimodal Bridge. Like ITIL of ten years ago, DevOps is starting to get a lot of attention and Gartner customers are asking what … Continue reading

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Report form BMC’s Exchange Federal

BMC’s annual Federal user group conference, Exchange, was held last Tuesday at the Ronald Regan Building in Washington, DC. Attendance was up this year with approximately 400 customers, partners, and BMC employees in attendance. In the afternoon we presented, The … Continue reading

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The Phoenix Project, Part 2

By Dick Stark By now, many of you should have had a chance to start The Phoenix Project, a book I discussed in my last blog.  To recap, The Phoenix Project, written by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford, … Continue reading

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The Phoenix Project, Part 1

By Dick Stark I recently finished The Phoenix Project, and made this required reading for our entire company. It is a story about “IT, DevOps, and helping your business win.”  Who ever thought a book about IT would be a … Continue reading

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Why I’m Optimistic about DevOps

By Dick Stark Last Tuesday, I attended a webinar, Tools-Driven DevOps and Continuous Software Delivery. There, Julie Craig, research director at EMA presented the results of its latest survey-based research on DevOps and Continuous Delivery. She confirmed that DevOps is … Continue reading

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How FootPrints Does SRM and SLM

The call to action is ensure that our customers and in particular, our FootPrints customers take advantage of the power of the tool. That is, “get the Ferrari out of the garage.” Continue reading

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Agile Digital Transformation

By Dick Stark A recent MIT Sloan Management Review Article, entitled, “Strategy, not Technology, Drives Digital Transformation,” discusses the digitalization and disruption that is transforming how businesses work. Of course, Netflix and Uber are the most common examples given of … Continue reading

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The “L” Word

By Dick Stark Every chance it gets, ServiceNow (SNOW) reminds BMC, HP, and CA customers, that they have legacy products from legacy IT firms, and that soon Remedy, or fill in the blank, will die an ugly death just like … Continue reading

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Closed-Loop Change Management

A much discussed topic at BMC Engage 2015 last month was Change Management, especially around automation and closure/change acceptance, also known as “closed-loop.” No surprise. Change Management is the most widely implemented process behind Incident Management, and BMC does closed … Continue reading

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