What is it?
Maximo Secrets is a website with 382 published articles (posts) mainly on the functional aspects of Maximo. These go quite deep beyond the detail that you will find from the IBM documentation. Along the top menu you will find YouTube videos including the slides and transcripts, Podcast episodes and transcripts, Quizzes and Blog posts. There is also a series of Overviews including one on the History of Maximo which I find is the easiest way to explain what Maximo is today, or rather I should say what Maximo Application Suite is today.
Who is it for?
That’s a good question. I would say the main focus of Maximo Secrets is for Maximo functional practitioners, I tend to write articles on new features which practitioners will need to understand before they can attempt the latest Professional Certification. But Maximo clients also use the website, and I use it myself with clients when I need to explain a particular feature.
It was never designed to be used as a training guide for new clients, but there are Module Overviews, Capabilities, and Application Maps to help a new client come up to speed. When you progress to the Blog Posts they are mostly written where a functional subject is explored in a way that could be followed if you had access to a Maximo system. Many of these are grouped which you can find under Deep Dives.
Maximo Secrets is mainly focused on Maximo Manage. It doesn’t cover the whole of it, but there is a lot of content to discover. You will find some articles on some aspects of Configuration, but not all, and I doubt I will cover all the areas that Technical Consultants will need, there are other websites which address this.
What’s the history?
Maximo Secrets was started in its current form in 2016, so this is my 10th year. The sole author is Andrew Jeffery, and I started writing articles for myself around 2010 but progressively I found it harder and harder to find what I had previously written. I started by working out how to blog using Blogger, as it happened, I wrote about the books I had read, before moving on to Maximo articles.
As the number of articles grew, I needed to turn Maximo Secrets into a website. I am using WordPress and major changes to WordPress a few years back meant that I had to learn new website skills. There is a lot I would like to do on the website, it could be improved, I tend to make changes during the winter months.
How many views does it get?
Maximo Secrets peaked at just under 400K views in 2024 and 370K in 2025, a decline, but visitors were 134K in 2024 and 147K in 2025. I think AI has skewed some of this and is affecting the numbers negatively perhaps people can find the answer in ChatGPT, Google, and others.
Currently there are around 6000 views and 2500 visitors per week so I’m predicting a reduction again on last year. As of 17th March 2024, all time views are now over 2.07 million with 656K visitors. Maximo Secrets was viewed from 211 countries in 2025.
There are now 900K words, which equates to 2001 pages of text, enough for five books. There are more than 4800 screenshots, diagrams and images = 2GB.
Is it just a website?
No, it is a bit more than that. A few years ago, I started a YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/MaximoSecrets and created 23 videos on various Asset Management and Maintenance Planning topics. You’ll find the transcripts in the top menu under YouTube Channel.
At the same time, I paired each YouTube video with a podcast episode of the same name. The words are different as the audience was for Maximo practitioners who were aiming to brush up on topics before taking a Maximo certification. I wrote the transcripts for 40 episodes but only recorded 22 of them. Recently I have started to create additional transcripts, and I have reviewed and recorded 14 additional episodes. You’ll find the transcripts in the top menu under Podcast. Podcasts are available on YouTube, Apple and Spotify. The transcripts also contain links to other articles and where available, the associated quiz.
I have also played with a Maximo Glossary which I reworked recently so that the content could be used on a YouTube Short, up to 3 minutes duration, 38 glossary terms have been created.
The most recent addition are quizzes, 13 of them to date. Each quiz has 10 questions; each is a flip card with the question on the front and the answer on the back.
The YouTube Videos and Podcasts are called Maximo Bite Size. The Quizzes – How well do you know Maximo?
What’s your plan for 2026?
Currently I am working on creating and recording more podcast episodes and creating a quiz to go along with each. Inventory is the latest subject area, but I’m mixing that up with trying to complete Asset Management, Service Management and Maintenance Planning, particular for the quizzes where I have already recorded the podcast.
I have no plans to go back to YouTube videos yet, they take a lot more time to produce each one. While I played with two Video Podcasts, they too take far more effort than the audio equivalent.
I’ve got a few articles to write and after MAS 9.2 has been released then I’ve also got several overviews and the history of MAS/Maximo to update. Whether I find time to write more articles on Transportation, or to continue with the Planning/Scheduling Maturity articles it rather depends on what other priorities come along.
In 2025 Maximo was 40 years old, I wrote four articles on Maximo History, 1985 to 2002. Search for History. You never know I might add articles for the next decade.