ITIL® 4 Specialist: High-Velocity IT Training

As organizations use information and related technologies to do business differently, the ability to rapidly launch new products and services to keep up with the competition becomes critical. To compete in this high–velocity environment, organizations must greatly intensify their agility, speed, cost-effectiveness, and responsiveness.

This ITIL 4 Specialist: High Velocity IT (HVIT) course explores the ways in which digital organizations and digital operating models function in high-velocity environments. This module includes the use of working practices such as Agile and Lean, and technical practices and technologies such as Cloud, Automation, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Automatic Testing, focusing on rapid delivery of higher quality products & services while maximizing business value.

The course prepares you for the ITIL 4 Specialist: High Velocity IT exam, one of five exams needed to achieve ITIL 4 Managing Professional (MP) Certification.

ITIL® 4 Specialist: HVIT Delivery Methods

• In-Person

• Online

ITIL® 4 Specialist: HVIT Course Benefits

• Understand the ways in which digital organizations and digital operating models function in high velocity environments.
• Understand the digital product lifecycle in terms of the ITIL Operating Model.
• Understand the importance of the ITIL guiding principles and the other fundamental concepts for delivering high-velocity IT.
• Learn about the high-velocity IT objectives including valuable investments, fast development, resilient operations, value co-creation and assured conformance.
• Focus on rapid delivery of products & services to obtain maximum value.
• Apply working practices such as Agile and Lean, and technical practices and technologies such as The Cloud, Automation, and Automatic Testing.

• Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching

ITIL® 4 Specialist: HVIT Course Outline

Important Course and Certification Information

Prerequisites

Must hold the ITIL 4 ® Foundation Certificate (see ITIL® 4 Foundation Training )

Certification Information

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Course Materials

You will have access to the following ITIL ebook on Day 1 of your course by logging into your PeopleCert ® account:

• ITIL 4 ® : High-Velocity IT Manual

Module 1: Understand concepts regarding the high-velocity nature of the digital enterprise, including the demand it places on IT

Understand the following terms:

• Digital organization
• High velocity IT
• Digital transformation
• IT transformation
• Digital product
• Digital technology

Understand when the transformation to high velocity IT is desirable and feasible

Understand the five objectives associated with digital products to achieve:

• Valuable investments – strategically innovative and effective application of IT
• Fast development - quick realization and delivery of IT services and IT-related products
• Resilient operations - highly resilient IT services and IT-related products
• Co-created value - effective interactions between service provider and consumer
• Assured conformance - to governance, risk and compliance requirements

Module 2: Understand the digital product lifecycle in terms of the ITIL ‘operating model’

Understand how high velocity IT relates to:

• The four dimensions of service management
• The ITIL service value system
• The service value chain
• The digital product lifecycle

Module 3: Understand the importance of the ITIL guiding principles and other fundamental concepts for delivering high velocity IT

Understand the following principles, models, and concepts:

• Ethics
• Safety culture, Lean culture, Toyota Kata
• Lean / Agile / Resilient / Continuous
• Service-dominant logic
• Design thinking
• Complexity thinking

Know how to use the following principles, models, and concepts:

• Ethics
• Safety culture
• Lean culture
• Toyota Kata
• Lean / Agile / Resilient / Continuous
• Service-dominant logic
• Design thinking
• Complexity thinking

To contribute to:

• Help get customers’ jobs done
• Trust and be trusted
• Continually raise the bar
• Accept ambiguity and uncertainty
• Commit to continual learning

Module 4: Know how to contribute to achieving value with digital products

Module 5: Know how the service provider ensures valuable investments are achieved. Know how to use the following practices to contribute to achieving valuable investments and the references below which refer to the practices guidance

• Portfolio management
• Relationship management

Module 6: Know how the service provider ensures fast development is achieved. Know how to use the following practices to contribute to achieving fast development

• Architecture management
• Business analysis
• Service validation and testing
• Software development and management

Module 7: Know how the service provider ensures resilient operations are achieved. Know how to use the following practices to contribute to achieving resilient operations:

• Availability management
• Capacity and performance management
• Monitoring and event management
• Problem management
• Service continuity management
• Infrastructure and platform management

Module 8: Know how the service provider ensures co-created value is achieved. Know how to use the following practices to contribute to achieving co- created value with the service consumer

• Relationship management
• Service design
• Service desk

Module 9: Know how the service provider ensures assured conformance is achieved. Know how to use the following practices to contribute to achieving assured conformance:

• Information security management
• Risk management