Why you're (probably) doing service catalogs wrong

Service catalogs promise a lot of things: powerful automations, insights into your technology estate.

But over the last few years, many of us have learned that setting up and maintaining a service catalog is really hard.

Building out a catalog from a standing start can take months, or even years. Too many people get stuck in a chicken-and-egg situation, where you can’t deliver value because you don’t have the data in your catalog, and you can’t convince anyone to spend time helping you because the catalog doesn’t do anything yet.

But there is another way.