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Overview

About On-Demand Learning

TechSherpas 365’s On-Demand courses provide you with access to official courseware materials and hands-on labs, empowering you to learn at your own pace. On-Demand allows you to design your training around your schedule, budget, and individual learning needs.

On-Demand Learning is a perfect solution for students who are unable to attend traditional instructor-led training due to schedule constraints. You receive the same materials and labs as an instructor-led course, with the added convenience of flexible scheduling and a lower price tag.

This On-Demand Course Includes:

  • Official Courseware License
  • Hands-on Exercises/Labs
  • Certification Package:
    • Practice exam
    • official certification exam

Course Overview

This course brings together the full meaning of a Lifecycle approach to Service Management. The focus is on the strategy, planning, and measuring ITIL® practices. Understanding and interacting with the lifecycle phase/process/function interactions and interdependencies are crucial to the successful completion of MALC. It is also expected the candidate can apply the high-level concepts of project management and application design, though these concepts are not directly taught during this course.

It is highly recommended that students have and study the five core Lifecycle books.

In This Course You Will Learn:

  • Key concepts of the service lifecycle
  • Communication and stakeholder management
  • Integrating service management processes across the service lifecycle
  • Managing services across the service lifecycle
  • Governance and organization
  • Measurement
  • Implementing and improving service management capability.

Prerequisites

Candidates must have the following:

  • Two (2) credits from the ITIL Foundation certificate V3 or higher (or V2 and the Bridge certifications)
  • 15 credits from ITIL Intermediate qualifications

Description

Module 00: ITIL®2011: Managing Across the Lifecycle – Course Introduction

Module 01: Service Management and Value

  • Student perceptions/definitions of Service Management
  • In-depth look at value and value concepts

Module 02: Service Management Components and Roles

  • Processes & Functions
  • Managing process activities via RACI

Module 03: Key Risk and Knowledge Concepts

  • Risk Frameworks
  • Measuring, Mitigating and Reporting Risk
  • Knowledge management practices to follow, deploy

Module 04: Exercise: MALC Case Study Analysis

  • Analyzing the MALC Case Study (v1.1)
  • Key Elements

Module 05: Implement, Assess, Improve Service Management

  • Add Service Strategy to your Service Management activities
  • Strategic Assessments (SWOT)
  • Strategic Assessment Steps

Module 06: Assessment Frameworks

  • Discussion of several Assessment frameworks:
    • ITIL® maturity assessments
    • ISO/IEC 20000
    • COBIT
    • Six Sigma
    • CMMI
    •  Gap Analysis
    • Benchmarking
  • Compare/contrast the various models
  • Deming Cycle

Module 07: 7-Step Improvement Process

  • The 7 steps
  • Justifying improvements with a Business Case

Module 08: Justifying Improvements Financially

  • ROI: Pre- and Post-Program
  • Screening and Preference Decisions
  • CSI & ROI

Module 09: Managing Organizational Change

  • Impact of improvements
  • Organizational Change via Kotter and others
  • Plan/implement Service Management Technologies

Module 10: Exercise: Develop Assessment Criteria

  • Assignment of Develop Assessment Criteria
  • MALC Sample Exam Questions

Module 11: Exercise Review:  MALC Sample Exam Questions

  • Sample Paper 1: Question 1
  • Sample Paper 2: Question 6

Module 12: Measurements: Metrics

  • Measuring Business Value
  • Metrics…in Review
  • Service Measurement Models
  • Designing Measurement Systems

Module 13: Measurements: Monitor, Control & Report

  • Monitor & Control Systems (Monitoring Loops)
  • Types of Reporting based on Monitoring
  • Ties to Event Management

Module 14: Exercise: Applying Assessment Criteria

  • Review of Developing Assessment Criteria
  • Assignment of Applying Assessment Criteria

Module 15: Integration: Strategic Benefits

  • Ensuring strategic benefits
  • Building Strategic Benefits into other processes/phases

Module 16: Integration: Lifecycle and Phase Inputs & Outputs

  • Generic Lifecycle  inputs/outputs
  • Specific inputs/outputs per lifecycle phase
  • Handout: Inputs/Outputs v1

Module 17: Integration: Value to the Business Part 1

  • Service Management Processes Demonstrating Value
  • Value to the Business – Service Strategy & Service Design

Module 18: Integration: Value to the Business Part 2

  • Service Management Processes Demonstrating Value
  • Value to the Business – Service Transition, Service Operation & CSI

Module 19: Integration: Process Interfaces

  • Interfaces between all Service Management processes
  • Handout: Process Interface Diagram v1

Module 20: Exercise: Internet Banking Risks

  • Review of Applying Assessment Criteria
  • Assignment of Internet Banking Risks
  • Exercise Sample Exam Questions

Module 21: Exercise Review:  MALC Sample Exam Questions

  • Sample Paper 1: Question 6
  • Sample Paper 2: Question 8

Module 22: Managing Services: Requirements & Cross-Lifecycle Support

  • Managing requirements
  • The SDP
  • Cross-lifecycle, cross-support
  • Improvements
  • Handout: Customer & Users Measuring Satisfaction v1
  • Handout: Satisfaction Survey Types v1

Module 23: Managing Services: Challenges, Risks, CSFs Part 1

  • Challenges and Risks for SS, SD, ST
  • CSFs for SS, SD, ST

Module 24: Managing Services: Challenges, Risks, CSFs Part 2

  • Challenges, Risks and CSFs for SS, SD, ST
  • What is your Top 10 list of challenges, risks, CSFs?

Module 25: Exercise: Where’s the value?

  • Review of Internet Banking Risks
  • Assignment of “Where’s the value?”
  • MALC Sample Exam Questions

Module 26: Exercise Review:  MALC Sample Exam Questions

  • Sample Paper 1: Question 3
  • Sample Paper 2: Question 2

Module 27: Governance

  • What is governance? How is it defined? ISO/IEC 38500
  • Where IT (or business) governance is managed – the ISG
  • Management Systems
  • Sourcing and Change Governance

Module 28: Organizational Structures

  • Centralized vs. Decentralized Spectrum
  • Organizational Development
  • Organization Structures

Module 29: Organizing Service Management

  • Organizing the Lifecycle phases – Considerations
  • Competencies of Staff
  • Service Provider Types
  • Organizing Service Delivery
  • Handout: Advantages/Disadvantages of Sourcing Structures v1

Module 30: Exercise: “We’ve been outsourced!”

  • Review of “Where’s the value?”
  • Assignment of “We’ve been outsourced!”

Module 31: Stakeholder Management

  • Service Management Stakeholders
  • BRM: Managing Stakeholders
  • BRM Lifecycle Activities & Roles

Module 31: Communication

  • Communication through the Lifecycle Phases

Module 33: Exercise: Communicating Change

  • Review of “We’ve been outsourced!”
  • Assignment of Communicating Change
  • MALC Sample Exam Questions

Module 34: Exercise Review:  MALC Sample Exam Questions

  • Review of Communicating Change
  • Sample Paper 1: Question 2
  • Sample Paper 2: Question