In this 3-day course participants learn about the principles, concepts, processes and best practices described in the ITIL® service transition core volume. Through a series of lectures and hands-on practical exercises participants will be prepared for the adoption of service management best practices in your organization and for the certification exam.
This course covers the service transition processes, such as, transition planning and support, service asset and configuration management, change management, release and deployment management, knowledge management, change evaluation and service validation and testing.
This course focuses on topics such as service transition principles, organizing for service transition, challenges, risks and key performance indicators.
The ITIL Foundation certification is a pre-requisite to take the exam at the end of the class. Proof of certification must be provided in order to receive service transition exam results.
Please note, this course and all of our accredited ITIL courses are only offered together with the respective exam.
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By the end of this course, participants will have the leadership toolkit to shape and steer GenAI portfolios across their organization.
Strategic Application
Course Introduction
- History of ITIL
- What is a service?
- Utility, warranty and value
- Assets, resources and capabilities
- What is service management?
- Stakeholders
- Processes and function
- Generic service management roles
- The service lifecycle map
- Purpose of service transition
- Objectives of service transition
- Scope of service transition
- Business value of service transition
- Inputs and outputs
- Service transition to service strategy
- Service transition to service design
- Service transition to service operation
- Service transition to continual service improvement
- Defining a formal policy for service transition
- Implementing changes through service transition
- Adopting a common framework and standards
- Maximizing re-use of established processes and systems
- Aligning service transition plans with business needs
- Establishing and maintaining relationships with stakeholders
- Establishing effective controls and disciplines
- Providing systems for knowledge transfer and decision support
- Planning release packages
- Anticipating and managing course corrections
- Proactively managing resources across service transitions
- Ensuring early lifecycle involvement in the service lifecycle
- Providing assurance of the quality of the new or changed service
- Proactively improving quality during service transition
- Purpose
- Objectives
- Scope
- Business value
- Policies, principles and basic concepts
- Activities, methods and techniques
- Triggers, inputs, outputs and interfaces
- Critical success factors and key performance indicators
- Challenges and risks
- Roles and responsibilities
- Purpose
- Objectives
- Scope
- Business value
- Policies, principles and basic concepts
- Activities, methods and techniques
- Triggers, inputs, outputs and interfaces
- Critical success factors and key performance indicators
- Challenges and risks
- Roles and responsibilities
- Purpose
- Objectives
- Scope
- Business value
- Policies, principles and basic concepts
- Activities, methods and techniques
- Triggers, inputs, outputs and interfaces
- Critical success factors and key performance indicators
- Challenges and risks
- Roles and responsibilities
- Purpose
- Objectives
- Scope
- Business value
- Policies, principles and basic concepts
- Activities, methods and techniques
- Triggers, inputs, outputs and interfaces
- Critical success factors and key performance indicators
- Challenges and risks
- Roles and responsibilities
- Purpose
- Objectives
- Scope
- Business value
- Policies, principles and basic concepts
- Activities, methods and techniques
- Triggers, inputs, outputs and interfaces
- Critical success factors and key performance indicators
- Challenges and risks
- Roles and responsibilities
- Purpose
- Objectives
- Scope
- Business value
- Policies, principles and basic concepts
- Activities, methods and techniques
- Triggers, inputs, outputs and interfaces
- Critical success factors and key performance indicators
- Challenges and risks
- Roles and responsibilities
- Purpose
- Objectives
- Scope
- Business value
- Policies, principles and basic concepts
- Activities, methods and techniques
- Triggers, inputs, outputs and interfaces
- Critical success factors and key performance indicators
- Challenges and risks
- Roles and responsibilities
- Managing communications and commitment
- Communications during service transition
- Communication planning
- Communication strategy
- Example communication path
- Methods of communication
- Motivation and the importance of communication
- Managing organization and stakeholder change
- The emotional cycle of change
- Effective management of change
- Stakeholder management
- Stakeholder mapping and analysis
- Organization, roles and responsibilities
- The role of service transition in organizational change
- Understanding the organizational culture
- Organizational development
- Functions
- Transition structure for a small organization
- Transition structure for a large organization
- Organizational context for transitioning a service
- Knowledge management tools
- Collaboration tools
- Configuration management system
- Introduction to a service transition
- Justifying service transition
- Designing for service transition
- Impact of introducing service transition on existing projects
- Cultural change aspects
- Risk and value
- Integrated approach to service transition processes
- Implementing service transition in a virtual or cloud environment
- Service transition under difficult conditions
- Challenges
- Risks
- Critical success factors
Exam review
Practice exam
Each participant receives a copy of the following Kindle books:
- Service Transition: Practical Applications of Transition Concepts, Processes and Best Practices
- Core Elements of Service Transition
- Service Transition Practice Exam Questions – Set 1
- Service Transition Practice Exam Questions – Set 2
hands-on learning model
Access to sanitized process maps, KPI definitions, candidate initiative lists, and basic cost baselines (time, cycle time, error or rework rates)
Speak with a Cognixia specialist about enrollment options, custom cohorts for your leadership team, or tailored delivery formats for your organization.
One of our specialists will contact you within one business day.
Asked Questions
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The ITIL service transition course is highly recommended for current and aspiring:
- IT professionals
- Service desk professionals
- Business professionals
- Executive leadership
- Service management professionals
- Incident managers
- Problem managers
- IT governance professionals
- Financial management professionals
- Business relationship professionals
- Service level managers
- Service transition professionals
- Release and deployment management professionals
- Knowledge management professionals
- Testing and validation professionals
- Change managers
- Quality improvement professionals
- Anyone interested or involved in application of ITIL and service management best practices
A minimum internet speed of 2 MBPS is recommended.
All the sessions are recorded. So even if you miss a class, you can access a recorded video of the session in your LMS.
You will get lifetime access to LMS and all the learning material in it.
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