The top 40 articles by Ronald Bartels on LinkedIn based on popularity

I started writing posts on LinkedIn in October 2014. Here are my top 40 articles since then:
  1. Born in the Sixties and my first taste of digital. Memories of my first encounter with digital technology. (631004)
  2. 6 things that will not solve problems in the workplace. The behaviours that will result in workplace problems. (331292)
  3. Boilerplate example for an IT SOP (Standard Operating Procedures). An article that shot to the top! (277911)
  4. Checklist for Change Management. Based on what pilots do but for IT. (111364)
  5. The IF THEN ELSE of SDWAN - reality versus the lab. Exception handling in SDWAN ecosystem. (108611)
  6. A checklist for troubleshooting network problems (22 things to catch). Old but obviously still well liked! (62717)
  7. Prestik, Scotch tape and barbed wire data centres. Data centres that cut corners are not where you need to store your data. (51156)
  8. A brief history of Madge Networks, My memories of a company who made Token-ring and had a philosophy of "Support without limits!" (31721)
  9. Learning from great leaders, Eddy Merckx. My cycling hero! (28234)
  10. Standby generator checklist. Boring but one of the most viewed articles. (21828)
  11. Learning from great leaders, Amundsen. Why Amundsen, a hero from the age of explorers, is a great leader. (21378)
  12. 5 practices that need to be taken into account when migrating to a more modern data centre. An article related to data centre migrations. (19146)
  13. Unforgettable work moments that will never find its way into my CV. Work moments not recorded in my CV. (13579)
  14. Great interview, poor performance. A great interview with a candidate does not necessarily mean that he will deliver great performances. (13301)
  15. Creating a leak detecting IoT solution. Detecting water leaks in a data centre and similar environments. (12128)
  16. 32 free Information Technology ebooks, Bibles and guides for Dummies. (10237)
  17. eTOM - the dinosaur of telecommunications. The dated framework whose time has expired (10102)
  18. Lessons from building large campus networks. Important considerations when building large networks. (9493)
  19. The business of SDWAN - from the top down. Don't double down on the technology! (8106)
  20. Learning from great leaders, Shaka Zulu (a military genius). Probably the greatest historical leader from Africa. (7911)
  21. Greyhounds (Greybrakke) - the legacy of the Governor General. About the history of my alma mater, Grey College. (6245)
  22. Installing NeDi on a Raspberry Pi 2. An article on the open source network management tool NeDi (5876).
  23. A timeline of major incidents (showstoppers) and milestones for Data centres and Operators in South - 2005. A summary of the crises that have happened in our neck of the savannah. (5700)
  24. Electronic tomstones - scattering the virtual ashes. What happens to our social media when we die? (5205)
  25. It's not about the uptime. Making the point that it is more important to analyse the downtime than to measure the uptime. (4801)
  26. Lessons from great leaders, Lovell, Kranz and Liebergot. And they appear in my favourite film Apollo 13. (4785)
  27. ITIL in the enterprise (the cart before the horse). We have solutions that go in search of problems. (4258)
  28. 5h1t h@ppens - understanding incident pyramids in IT. Circumstantial evidence meets IT. (2971)
  29. My life as a car. Analogies, nuff said. (2448)
  30. Work-life balance (and some help in cheating). Or why is whisky important? (2446)
  31. Craic. An explanation of Craic and why in our modern era where we are attached to our phones and broadband it is important. (2346)
  32. Installing RedMine on ubuntu 14. A write up on a difficult install. (2311)
  33. The difference between a local data centre and one that is offshore. Making the case to keep your data local. (2265)
  34. Flawed "ITIL aligned" Incident management. A story about Bob and Alice. (2243)
  35. An integrated approach to working with problems. A companion article to one of my top rated articles. (2239)
  36. Two words. Enough said. (2159)
  37. RIRA - Rapid IT Risk Assessment. Information Technology (IT) risk is a measure of the extent to which the IT landscape is exposed based on the exploitation of vulnerabilities by a potential threat. (2148)
  38. Why Madge Networks went titsup. A dot com crash to which I was a party. (2144)
  39. Dealing with showstoppers (the Major Incident Process). Wyle E, Coyote, a hero for all the wrong reasons. (1645)
  40. Checklists: FTW. Why the use of checklists has become important. (1531)
You can catch me on twitter here or read my blog, Thinking Problem Management here.
My articles on LinkedIn about the Internet of Things (IoT) are available here while my articles about software defined wide area networks (SDWAN) are available here.
* My personal favourite post was about Madiba (read it here).
** The famous Alpha to Zulu Guides. A work in progress.

Ronald Bartels Top 40