Last Updated on December 31, 2024 by maximosecrets
What is it?
Maximo Secrets is a website with 350 articles 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 transcripts 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. 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 more into a website. I am using WordPress and major changes to WordPress a few years ago 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?
There are 350 articles (blog posts and pages) and today Maximo Secrets has >1000 views per day, 1500 views and 700 visitors each week day. As of 31st December 2024, all time views are now over 1.64 million with 485K visitors. Maximo Secrets has been viewed from 208 countries in the last 12 months.
There are 758K words, which equates to 1685 pages of text, enough for four books. There must be more than 1000 screenshots and diagrams.
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. You’ll find the transcripts in the top menu under Podcast. Here is an example, Location Types and Location Systems.
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, 16 glossary terms have been created. Here is an example, Location Type.
Over the years I have also developed some quizzes, and I have reworked the format for these to use flip cards. Here is an example, Location Types and Location Systems.
What’s your plan for 2025?
For some time I have wanted to create more YouTube videos and I had made this a priority for 2025.
Over the last month I have resurrected the Maximo Glossary which I had played with previously. There are 16 glossary terms, each is a full page split into two columns with a vertical slide on the left and text on the right. I have published these as YouTube Shorts which now allows videos to be up to 3 minutes long. I will continue to add to the glossary during 2025.
The podcast episodes which I had created a couple of years ago were audio. Now Apple, Spotify and YouTube accept both audio and video podcasts, so currently I have started to rework the existing podcast episodes as video podcasts and I hope to launch the first one in the new year.
When I publish the podcast episode I will also publish the associated glossary terms and a quiz using the flip card format.
Apart from that I am planning to write some articles on various aspects of Maximo for Transportation, before moving on to Complex Assets. In the second half of the year, I expect I will take a look at the new features of MAS 9.1.