VeriSMTM – Foundation Courseware

VeriSMTM – Foundation Courseware
Author: Helen Morris
Publisher: Van Haren
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-01-22
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9401802637

Besides the VeriSMTM – Foundation Courseware (ISBN: 9789401802628) publication you are advised to obtain the publication VeriSMTM - A service management approach for the digital age (ISBN: 9789401802406). Contact us at [email protected] to find out more about our Courseware Partnership. This training material covers the syllabus for the VeriSMTM Foundation qualification. The training can be delivered over two days. This courseware is accredited to prepare the student for the VeriSMTM Foundation certification. VeriSMTM Foundation consists of two parts: VeriSMTM Essentials and VeriSMTM Plus , each covering one day of training. Students who already have an (IT) Service Management certificate can benefit from the knowledge they already have. They are the audience for a VeriSMTM Plus training only. When they pass the VeriSMTM Plus exam they receive the VeriSMTM Foundation certificate. Training Providers who want to offer a one day training on service management principles can decide to offer the VeriSMTM Essentials training only. Students who pass the VeriSMTM Essentials exam, receive the VeriSMTM Essentials certificate. If they pass the VeriSMTM Plus exam later, they will automatically receive the VeriSMTM Foundation certificate. The courseware covers the following topics: • The Service Organization (Essentials) • Service culture (Essentials) • People and organizational structure (Essentials) • The VeriSMTM model (both) • Progressive practices (Plus) • Innovative technologies (Plus) VeriSMTM is a holistic, business-oriented approach to Service Management, which helps to make sense of the growing landscape of best practices and how to integrate them to offer value to the consumer. It is an evolution in Service Management thinking, and provides an up-to-date approach, including the latest practices and technological developments, to help organizations in transforming their business to the new reality of the digital age. VeriSMTM is Value-driven, Evolving, Responsive and Integrated Service Management. VeriSMTM is a registered trademark of and owned by IFDC, the International Foundation of Digital Competences.

Verism - Foundation Courseware

Verism - Foundation Courseware
Author: Van Haren Publishing
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN: 9789401802628

This training material covers the syllabus for the VeriSM(TM) Foundation qualification. The training can be delivered over two days. This courseware is accredited to prepare the student for the VeriSM(TM) Foundation certification.

VeriSMTM Professional Courseware

VeriSMTM Professional Courseware
Author: Helen Morris
Publisher: Van Haren
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9401803862

Besides the VeriSMTM Professional Courseware (ISBN: 9789401830847) publication you are advised to obtain the publication VeriSMTM - A service management approach for the digital age (ISBN: 9789401802406). Service management has never been so important, as all organizations are either receiving or providing services to and from others. As digitization has spread through our organizations and culture, IT has become a vital part of our workplace. VeriSMTM provides guidance on how to manage the variety of service management approaches which have now become common practice. Often organizations do not know how to combine these approaches, or if they should adopt one or another in preference. VeriSMTM allows an organization to understand how to make the best use of all of its approaches. The courseware is designed to support your learning about the VeriSMTM concepts, and to be a guide to your understanding of service management and its use across the whole organization.

DevOps Foundation Courseware - English

DevOps Foundation Courseware - English
Author: Oleg Skrynnik
Publisher: Van Haren
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9401803927

Besides the DevOps Foundation Courseware - English (ISBN: 9789401803595) publication you are advised to obtain the publication DevOps - A Business Perspective (ISBN: 978 940 180 372 4). DevOps enables organizations to decrease time to market for new releases, software, or services by encouraging a collaborative approach from development and operations teams. The adoption of DevOps creates an environment where productivity is increased through the automation of processes around infrastructure and workflows. DevOps as a phenomenon associated with new automation tools, programming techniques or technologies; It differs from other books by the structural nature of the narrative (perhaps, excessively structured) approach and by the attempt to cover fully the phenomenon of DevOps at a basic, fundamental level.

ITIL® 4 Foundation Courseware - English

ITIL® 4 Foundation Courseware - English
Author: Van Haren Learning Solutions a.o.
Publisher: Van Haren
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2019-02-28
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9401803951

Besides the ITIL® 4 Foundation Courseware - English (ISBN: 978 94 018 0394 6) publication you are advised to obtain the ITIL® 4 - A Pocket Guide (ISBN: 978 94 018 0439 4). The course is designed as an introduction to ITIL 4 and enables you to understand a new way to look at IT Service Management through a Service Value System (SVS). ITIL 4 provides an end-to-end picture of what means to contribute to business value, and also integrates concepts from models such as Lean IT, Agile and DevOps. This course is for those who are involved in the delivery of IT services and need an understanding of best practice in IT Service Management. Student must pass a 60 minute, 40 question closed book multiple choice, examination with a passing score of 65% in order to receive this certification. You can write the exam at any time and at any place after the course. The test is done via your own computer proctored via webcam. Candidates wishing to be trained and pass the exam for this qualification would be recommended to have a general awareness of IT and appreciation of their own business environment. You’ll learn: • Understand the key concepts of service management • Understand how the ITIL guiding principles can help an organization adopt and adapt service management • Understand the four dimensions of service management • Understand the purpose and components of the ITIL service value system • Understand the activities of the service value chain, and how they interconnect • Know the purpose and key terms of 18 ITIL practices • Understand 7 ITIL practices ITIL® is a registered trade mark of AXELOS Limited, used under permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved. This product is only for courseware partners, affiliates or designated students. Any course should always include an exam.

MoV® Foundation Management of Value Courseware – English

MoV® Foundation Management of Value Courseware – English
Author: Douwe Brolsma
Publisher: Van Haren
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2021-10-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9401808139

Besides the Mov® Foundation Management of Value Courseware – English publication you are advised to obtain the official publication from TSO. MoV Foundation is suitable for management and staff in organizations wishing to acquire an understanding of MoV. MoV is answering the question: are we getting the optimal benefits, at affordable costs, with an acceptable risk level. It shows that we have to achieve the optimal balance between all stakeholders’ needs, and the usage of resources (money, people, time, energy and material). The greater the benefits delivered and the fewer resources that are used in doing so, the higher the value ratio. It is also intended for professionals involved in directing, managing, supporting and delivering portfolios, programmes and projects, including Senior Management, Programme Managers, Project Managers, Change Managers and Project and Programme Office staff and their sponsors. MoV is also relevant for those who apply the methods in other PPM guides to build on and enhance the activities to maximize value and delivery of benefits. MoV® is a registered trademark of AXELOS Limited, used under permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved.

DevOps Master Courseware

DevOps Master Courseware
Author: Alejandro Pestchanker
Publisher: Van Haren
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2019-10-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9401803641

Besides the DevOps Master Courseware (ISBN: 978 94 018 313 7) publication you are advised to obtain the publication The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations (ISBN: 978 19 427 8800 3). The word DevOps is a contraction of ‘Development’ and ‘Operations’. DevOps is a set of best practices that emphasize the collaboration and communication of IT-professionals (developers, operators, and support staff) in the lifecycle of applications and services, leading to: • Continuous Integration: merging all developed working copies to a shared mainline severBesides the DevOps Master Courseware (ISBN: 978 94 018 362 5) publication you are advised to obtain the publication The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations (ISBN: 978 19 427 8800 3). The word DevOps is a contraction of ‘Development’ and ‘Operations’. DevOps is a set of best practices that emphasize the collaboration and communication of IT-professionals (developers, operators, and support staff) in the lifecycle of applications and services, leading to: • Continuous Integration: merging all developed working copies to a shared mainline several times a day • Continuous Deployment: release continuously or as often as possible • Continuous Feedback: seek feedback from stakeholders during all lifecycle stages The DevOps practices covered in this certification are derived from the Three Ways: - The First Way is to enable the work to move fast from left to right, from Development to Operations to the customer. - The Second Way is to enable feedback to go fast from right to left, from all stakeholders back into the value stream. - The Third Way is to enable learning by creating a high-trust culture of experimentation and risk-taking. Moreover, the crucial subjects of security in all stages, and maintaining compliance during change are covered. The certification has been developed in cooperation with experts in the DevOps work field. Recommended per knowledge: Pre-knowledge of Agile, Lean and/or IT Service Management, for instance through the EXIN Agile Scrum Foundation exam, LITA Lean IT Foundation exam or EXIN IT Service Management Foundation based on ISO/IEC 20000 exam, is recommended. al times a day • Continuous Deployment: release continuously or as often as possible • Continuous Feedback: seek feedback from stakeholders during all lifecycle stages The DevOps practices covered in this certification are derived from the Three Ways: - The First Way is to enable the work to move fast from left to right, from Development to Operations to the customer. - The Second Way is to enable feedback to go fast from right to left, from all stakeholders back into the value stream. - The Third Way is to enable learning by creating a high-trust culture of experimentation and risk-taking. Moreover, the crucial subjects of security in all stages, and maintaining compliance during change are covered. The certification has been developed in cooperation with experts in the DevOps work field. Recommended per knowledge: Pre-knowledge of Agile, Lean and/or IT Service Management, for instance through the EXIN Agile Scrum Foundation exam, LITA Lean IT Foundation exam or EXIN IT Service Management Foundation based on ISO/IEC 20000 exam, is recommended.

MSP® 5th edition Practitioner Courseware - English

MSP® 5th edition Practitioner Courseware - English
Author: Douwe Brolsma
Publisher: Van Haren
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2021-10-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9401808252

Besides the MSP 5th® Edition Foundation Courseware - English publication you are advised to obtain the corresponding publication Managing Successful Programmes 5th edition (ISBN: 9780113316762). This 5th edition will help current and aspiring programme managers, and many other roles, to design, plan, lead and deliver their programmes and thus help organizations be successful. Programme management is recognized as an approach that brings together multiple projects and other work associated with delivering outcomes of benefit across organizational boundaries. The programme management approach shows organizations how to adopt appropriate governance, pace, and focus to enable them to move ahead. MSP 5th describes an adaptable set of programme management approaches, leading to the creation of outcomes of benefit in an incremental way and to provide an integrated framework that guides the work. MPS 5th applies three lenses: • Principles are the guiding obligations to achieve Value • Themes are the essential governance, documented in Approaches • Processes are a structured set of activities, showing how themes are applied in the programme (cyclical) lifecycle. Value proposition: MSP is the certification and guidance for programme managers, business change managers and the next step for project managers to develop their knowledge and skills to be able to positively respond to the challenges they face when managing programmes and larger, more strategic or multiple projects. Programme management using MSP creates a framework that enables the organization to align the delivery of programmes and projects to organizational strategy; and to focus on the delivery of outcomes and benefits, while mitigating risks and actively engaging stakeholders at all levels. MSP can be used in conjunction with all the other best-practice products (e.g. PRINCE2®, MoP®, M_o_R®) and international or internal organizational standards (for governance). The MSP Foundation Certification is suitable for individuals wanting to demonstrate they have achieved sufficient understanding of the theory of the MSP methodology. MSP represents proven programme management best practice in the successful delivery of transformational change through the application of programme management. MSP has been adopted by many organizations within both the public and private sectors. The core publication, ‘Managing Successful Programmes’, has drawn on the experiences of those who have adopted programme management. Key benefits: • MSP leverages off the real-life expertise of the global programme management community, offering practical, relevant, current accessible guidance • The new exams highlight real world applications that equip professionals for success in Programme management This MSP 5th edition Courseware is suited for the MSP 5th edition exams and contains sample exams and lots of extra short exercises to facilitate interactive training courses both offline and online.

ITIL® 4 Direct, Plan, Improve Glossary (DPI) Courseware

ITIL® 4 Direct, Plan, Improve Glossary (DPI) Courseware
Author: Learning Solutions
Publisher: Van Haren
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2020-03-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9401806128

This is the universal module, that is a key component of both, ITIL 4 Managing Professional and ITIL 4 Strategic Leader streams. It is aimed at managers of all levels involved in shaping direction and strategy or developing a continually improving team. It provides individuals with the practical skills necessary to create a 'learning and improving' IT organization, with a strong and effective strategic direction. The module covers the influence and impact of Agile and Lean ways of working, and how they can be leveraged to an organization's advantage. It will provide practitioners with a practical and strategic method for planning and delivering continual improvement with necessary agility. Accredited training for the ITIL Managing Professional modules is mandatory to enable full understanding of the core material. All modules have ITIL 4 Foundation as a pre-requisite. ITIL® is a registered trade mark of AXELOS Limited, used under permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved. This product is only for courseware partners, affiliates or designated students.