You Will Learn How To
- Prepare for and take the ITIL v3 Managers Bridge exam
- Define the concept of Service Management as a practice
- Identify the Service Lifecycle as the core of ITIL v3
- Assess how the Service Management processes contribute to the Service Lifecycle
- Explain the objectives, scope, activities and roles for all of the ITIL v3 processes
- Recognize how technology enables the Service Lifecycle
Course Benefits
The ITIL v3 Managers Bridge exam provides a fast track to gaining the ITIL v3 Expert certification. In this course, you gain the knowledge necessary to take the ITIL v3 Managers Bridge exam, which is offered at the end of this course. In addition, this course covers new ITIL v3 content and introduces the Service Lifecycle which forms the core of ITIL v3.
Who Should Attend
Those who hold the ITIL Service Manager Certificate (v1 or v2) or enough credits from the v1-v2 Foundation and Practitioner certifications and would like to obtain the ITIL v3 Expert certification through the successful completion of the ITIL v3 Managers Bridge exam.
Workshop Course
Workshops provide knowledge of Service Lifecycle processes that are new or significantly changed in ITIL v3 from previous versions. Workshops include:
- Applying Service Management as a practice
- Identifying Service Strategy processes and implementation challenges
- Linking Service Catalogue Management to business value
- Implementing Continual Service Improvement to support the Service Lifecycle
- Planning Service Management technologies
- Taking the ITIL v3 Managers Bridge Certification exam
Course 198 Content
Introduction
The background of ITIL v3
- Why ITIL needed to change
- Exploring the new structure of ITIL
Service Management as a practice
- How Good Practice can assist an organization
- Describing a Service and the concept of Service Management as a practice
- Defining Service Management
What's New in ITIL v3
Generic processes
- Service Catalogue
- Risk
- Definitive Media Library
- Service Change
- Change types
Specific processes
- Service Strategy: Financial Management
- Service Design: IT Service Continuity Management
- Service Transition: Change Management
- Service Operation: Problem Management
Service Lifecycle
The structure of the Service Lifecycle
- Exploring the scope, components and interfaces of the ITIL Library
- Identifying the objectives and business value of each Lifecycle phase
- Service Strategy
- Service Design
- Service Transition
- Service Operations
- Continual Service Improvement
Terminology and definitions
- Key Service Management concepts
- Identifying how these concepts can be used as part of a successful ITSM project or operation
Service Management Models
- Comparing Service Strategy Fundamentals
- The importance of people, processes, products and partners for Service Management
- Communicating Service Transition policy
- Explaining conflicting balances in Service Operation
- The role of measurement for Continual Service Improvement
- Balancing some of the opposing forces within Service Management
Processes and Functions
Service Strategy
- The four main activities in the Service Strategy process
- Identifying the objectives and scope for Service Portfolio Management and Demand Management
Service Design
- Recognizing the roles and key metrics for Service Catalogue Management
- The key activities of Information Security and Supplier Management
Service Transition
- Exploring the scope and basic concepts for Transition Planning and Support
- Roles and challenges for Release and Deployment Management and the DIKW model
Service Operation
- Key metrics of Event, Request and Access Management
- Communicating the methods and benefits of interfacing Service Operation to self-help capabilities
Continual Service Improvement
- Explaining the high-level objectives, basic concepts, process activities, roles and metrics
- The 7-step improvement process
Organizational structure of key functions
- The Service Desk
- Technical Management
- Application Management
- IT Operations Management
Service Management in the Organization
Analyzing IT Service Management roles
- The roles and responsibilities of the Service owner
- Determining organizational structure using the RACI model
Technology and architecture
- Considering generic requirements
- How Service Automation assists with integration
Implementation Considerations and Industry Guidance
- Implementing Service Management
- Complementary industry guidance for ITIL v3
- CobiT®
- ISO/IEC 20000
- CMMI
- Balanced Scorecard
- Quality management
- OSI
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Important Course Information
- Pre-course reading required
- Approximately 1 hour of home study each evening
- The ITIL v3 Managers Bridge Certification exam is offered at the end of the class
- The course fee includes the Managers Bridge Exam
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