ITIL®4 Direct, Plan & Improve Specialist

ITIL4S-DPI
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Overview

The ITIL Direct, Plan, and Improve (DPI) course is “shared” course between two designation streams – the ITIL Managing Professional (MP) and the ITIL Strategic Leader (SL).

This module provides individuals with the practical skills necessary to create a ‘learning and improving’ IT organisation, with a strong and effective strategic direction. The course covers the influence and impact of Agile and Lean ways of working, and how they can be leveraged to an organisation’s advantage. It will provide practitioners with a practical and strategic method for planning and delivering continual improvement with necessary agility.

The DPI course focuses on these key ITIL 4 practices:

  • Continual improvement
  • Measurement and reporting
  • Portfolio management
  • Organisational change management
  • Risk management

Another major component of the course includes learning about the impact of Agile and Lean ways of working and how these methodologies can be leveraged to your organisation’s advantage. The course provides practical and strategic elements for planning and delivering continual improvements with necessary agility.

The course is intended to give learners a good understanding of the key concepts of how to Direct, Plan, and Improve, the scope of what is to be directed/planned and how to use key principles and methods of planning:

  • Learn how to cascade goals and requirements
  • Learn how to define effective policies, controls, and guidelines
  • Learn how to place decision-making authority at the correct level
    • Understand the role of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) and how to integrate with the service value system (SVS)
    • Discover how to use the key principles and methods of continual improvement for all types of improvements
  • Learn how to use the ITIL continual improvement model to improve the service value system
  • Learn how to identify assessment objectives, outputs requirements, and criteria as well as how to select an appropriate assessment for a particular situation
  • Learn how to define and prioritise desired outcomes
  • Learn how to build, justify, and sell a business case
  • Learn how to conduct improvement reviews and how to embed continual improvement at all levels of the SVS
  • Discover how to use the key principles of organisational change management to:
    • Identify and manage different stakeholder types
  • Learn how to establish effective channels for feedback and communication
  • Learn how to develop effective interfaces across the value chain
  • Understand how to use the key principles and methods of measurement and reporting in directing, planning, and improvement
  • Learn how to direct, plan, and improve value streams and practices
  • Understand the differences between value streams and practices while learning how to select and use the appropriate techniques to direct, plan, and improve them.

This course is ideal for:

  • IT leaders and managers of all levels of the organisation who are seeking to obtain the ITIL Managing Professional (MP) designation or the ITIL Strategic Leader (SL) designation
  • Anyone involved in shaping IT direction and strategy.

The following are the prerequisites for this course:

  • You are required to have attained your ITIL®4 Foundation (you will need to provide us with a copy of your certificate upon registration in order to be enrolled onto this course).

Contact us if you have not yet attained your ITIL4 Foundation.

This course prepares participants for the examination leading to the ITIL®4 Direct, Plan & Improve certificate.

  • The exam consists of a 90-minute, 40 question, multiple-choice exam.
  • A mark of 70% is required to pass.
  • It is administered by an independent examination body, PeopleCert.
  • The exam is provided as an online examination voucher.
  • You will receive an email from PeopleCert shortly before your course with information on how to register for and schedule your exam.
  • The exam schedule is available 24/7 so you can sit your exam at a time that suits you.
  • Your voucher will be valid for 12 months, however we do recommend you complete your examination as close to the course date as you can – this is when the information is most fresh and relevant.

You will be provided with full materials for the course and to assist your revision prior to the exam:

  • Course workbooks/slideshow for students to download, or view on laptop or tablet devices
  • Official AXELOS ITIL practice exams
  • Course reference and exam guidance materials
  • ITIL4 online examination voucher, valid for 12-months

The ITIL4 official publication eBook and the official PeopleCert course materials are accessed from within your candidate portal once you have redeemed your PeopleCert Voucher Code.

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