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Change Management Maturity

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:39:43 -0400

Limiting Downtime with Mature Change Management Activities

I agree with your premise that complexity and changes lead to (as you state) "downtime, slower performing applications, and longer time to resolution when problems occur." Along your line of thought, there are "change management maturity" activities – automating change management, regularly scheduling changes, adopting change management processes like ITIL , etc. that help companies limit the problems that changes cause in production. As complexity grows in IT Operations, this situation will become more challenging. For more information, see research on this topic at www.stacksafe.com/research

Change Management Maturity

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:45:06 -0400

ITIL Impact on Key Business Benefits

Agree with your assertion that change is a leading cause of downtime. My company recently took a closer look at “change management maturity” to better understand how certain organizations gain significant business benefits from their change management process. Our research looks at how more mature activities – automating change management, regularly scheduling changes, adopting ITIL change management processes, etc. – help companies limit the problems that changes cause in production. They can also lower the percentage of IT staffs that must support the change management function. The study is at www.stacksafe.com/research

Would also be interested in a copy of your whitepaper.

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Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:35:49 -0400

"Break out" and die?I don't understand. Why would the fish want to "break out" of the fish bowl and jump out into an environment in which it can't survive (i.e. the glass-looking table top)?

"Swimming in circles" definitely seems better than "breaking out" and dying in five minutes.

What your ad says to me is this: if you're "swimming in circles" with your current PCI compliance solution which actually, to me, signals a positive experience in that all you have to do is set your current solution (in this case, since you slam Tripwire, let's use them) and it'll automatically make sure you're PCI compliant. But anyway, so yes, you want to "break free" from constant scanning - so you jump out of your current solution into an environment that doesn't support your way of living (or won't support the level of PCI compliance you desire). And, eventually, you're unable to adapt so thusly you (or, to keep with the analogy, your business) dies.

This is what I get from the ad. Why would I want to stop my current solution and take a "leap of faith" that eventually means that I wouldn't survive?