Course details

Participants will learn the principles and core elements of the Service Capability approach to IT Service Management as well as focusing on the processes & roles, activities and their execution throughout the Service Lifecycle.

Lesson 1: Introduction

  • Introduction/Housekeeping
  • Service Management as a practice
  • Service, its value proposition and composition
  • Functions and process across the Lifecycle
  • Role of Processes in the Service Lifecycle
  • How Service Management creates business value
  • How the processes within Service Offerings and Agreement support the Service Lifecycle

Lesson 2: Service Portfolio Management

  • The Service Portfolio and its relationship with the Service Catalog and Service Pipeline
  • How a Service Portfolio describes a provider’s service and how it relates the business service with the IT service.
  • Service Portfolio Management methods

Lesson 3: Service Catalog Management

  • Purpose, goal, objectives & scope
  • Interface to the Service Portfolio
  • Difference between a Business and a Technical Service Catalog
  • Importance of the Service Catalog to the Service Lifecycle and the business
  • Policies, principles and basic concepts
  • Metrics, challenges, Critical Success Factors and risks
  • Utilization of the Service Catalog by other processes and functions
  • Producing a Service Catalog

Lesson 4: IT Service Continuity Management

  • Purpose, goal, objectives& scope
  • Value to business and to the Service Lifecycle
  • Principles and basic concepts
  • Activities, methods and techniques and how it relates to the Service Lifecycle. (including SLA structures and determining Service Level Requirements)
  • Deliverables
  • Monitoring of service performance against SLAs
  • Metrics, challenges, Critical Success Factors and risks associated with the process
  • Contents of SLAs, OLAs and review meetings
  • The interfaces to other processes and functions

Lesson 5: Demand Management

  • The basic concepts of the process
  • Activity based Demand Management and business activity patterns
  • Interfaces to Service Portfolio
  • Managing demand for Service

Lesson 6: Supplier Management

  • Purpose, goal, objectives & scope
  • Importance of the process to the Service Lifecycle and how they generate business value
  • Principles and basic concepts
  • Activities, methods and techniques of this process and how it relates to the Service Lifecycle including evaluation of new suppliers
  • Supplier Categorization and maintenance of the Supplier Database
  • Metrics, challenges, critical success factors and risks

Lesson 7: Financial Management

  • Purpose, goal, objectives & scope
  • Service Valuation
  • Importance of the process to the Service Lifecycle and how they generate business value
  • Basic concepts – funding, accounting and chargeback
  • Return on Investment and the business case
  • Activities, methods and techniques and the Service Lifecycle
  • Design and Implement a Financial Management process

Lesson 8: Business Relationship Manager

  • The role of Business Relationship Managers

Lesson 9: Roles and Responsibilities

  • Service Catalog Manager
  • Service Level Manager
  • Supplier Manager

Lesson 10: Roles and Responsibilities

  • Requirements for technology to assist Service Design
  • Evaluation criteria for technology and tooling for process implementation
  • Practices for practice and process implementation
  • Challenges, Critical Success Factors and Risks
  • How to plan and implement Service Management technologies

Lesson 11: Exam Preparation

  • Sample Exams
  • Feedback
  • Recap

Prerequisites

ITIL® Foundation

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, you will learn:

  • The concept of Service Management as a practice
  • The functions & processes across the Lifecycle
  • The purpose, goal and objectives of Availability Management
  • The purpose, goal and objectives of Capacity Management
  • The purpose, goal and objectives of IT Service Continuity Management
  • The purpose, goal and objectives of Information Security Management
  • The purpose, goal and objectives of Demand Management
  • Technology Implementation considerations
Updated on 08 November, 2015

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