ITIL® 4 Specialist: Plan, Implement & Control Course & Examination

ITIL® 4 Specialist: Plan, Implement & Control Course & Examination

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ITIL 4 Specialist: Plan, Implement & Control, a combined module that covers the key concepts of 5 key ITIL practices: Change Enablement, Deployment Management, Release Management, Service Configuration Management, and IT Asset Management.

The ITIL 4 Foundation certification is a pre-requisite to attend this class. To achieve the Practice Manager designation you will also need to achieve the ITIL 4 Specialist: Create, Deliver & Support certification. Our ITIL Practice Manager course bundle, include all the courses you need, purchase together and save.

This course is an instructor-led course delivered over 3-days in our virtual classroom, join the class and network with your peers from anywhere with an internet connection. Have a team or need further date options? Request a quote and a member of our team will be in touch. 

Course Overview

The ITIL 4 Specialist: Plan, Implement and Control combined practice module is for IT professionals aiming to establish good cross-practice collaboration and effective service value streams. The individuals can demonstrate their understanding and application of the key concepts covered in the five ITIL Management Practices at both strategic and operational levels, maximising value from these practices.   

  • ITIL® 4 Practitioner: Change Enablement 
  • ITIL® 4 Practitioner: Deployment Management 
  • ITIL® 4 Practitioner: Release Management 
  • ITIL® 4 Practitioner: Service Configuration Management 
  • ITIL® 4 Practitioner: IT Asset Management 
Key Concepts:

Understand the purpose and key concepts of the Plan, Implement, and Control practices, highlighting their importance in establishing, executing, and governing IT service strategies effectively.

Practice success factors:
Learn about practice success factors (PSF) and key practice metrics, essential for evaluating the effectiveness and maturity of the Plan, Implement, and Control practices in achieving strategic objectives.

Roles and competencies: 

Focus on key roles within the Plan, Implement, and Control practices, and understand how to position the practices effectively within your organisation. Develop the necessary competencies for planning, executing, and controlling IT service strategies.

Information and technology:

See how Information and Technology can support and enable the Plan, Implement, and Control practices to deliver improvements, providing tools and systems for effective planning, implementation, and control.

Partners and suppliers: 

Explore the role of partners and suppliers in the Plan, Implement, and Control practices, understanding how to collaborate effectively to enhance strategy execution and governance.

The ITIL Capability Model: 

Discover how the capability criteria support the practices' capability development, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and organisational requirements for effective planning, implementation, and control.

Practices Overview

ITIL® 4 Practitioner: Change Enablement 

This practice module provides best practice guidance on how to maximise the number of successful service and product changes by ensuring that risks have been accurately assessed, authorising changes to proceed, and managing the change schedule. 

Change Enablement enables professionals to: 

  • Ensure that changes and their components are realised in an effective, safe, controlled and timely manner to meet stakeholders’ change-related expectations and needs 
  • Minimise the negative impacts of change 
  • Balance effectiveness, throughput, governance, compliance and risk control for all changes in the defined scope 
  • Be adaptive to meet the needs of various approaches to change development 
  • Measure, assess and develop the Change Enablement practice capability in your organisation by using the ITIL Maturity Model 
ITIL® 4 Practitioner: Deployment Management  

This practice module focuses on how to move new or changed hardware, software, documentation, processes, or any other component to live environments. It may also be involved in deploying components to other environments for testing or staging. 

Deployment Management enables professionals to:  

  • Deploy or remove products, services, and service components from or to different controlled environments, including development, integration, production, test, staging and live environments 
  • Effectively remove products and services from designated environments 
  • Establish and maintain effective approaches to the deployment of services and service components across the organisation 
  • Ensure the effective deployment of services and service components in the context of the organisation’s value streams 
  • Measure, assess and develop the Deployment Management practice capability in their organisation by using the ITIL Maturity Model
ITIL® 4 Practitioner: Release Management 

This practice module provides best practice guidance on how to make new and changed services and features available for use in line with the organisation’s policies and agreements between the organisation and its service consumers.

Release Management enables professionals to: 

  • Establish and maintain effective approaches to the release of services and service components across the organisation 
  • Ensure effective release of services and service components in the context of the organisation’s value streams and service relationships 
  • Reduce risks and losses resulting from releases 
  • Measure, assess and develop the Release Management practice capability in their organisation by using the ITIL Maturity Model
ITIL® 4 Practitioner: Service Configuration Management 

This practice module ensures that accurate and reliable information about the configuration of services and the configuration items that support them is available when and where needed. This includes information on how configuration items are configured and the relationships between them.

Service Configuration Management enables professionals to:  

  • Collect and manage configuration items (CIs) which typically include hardware, software, networks, buildings, suppliers, products and services 
  • Efficiently provide useful configuration information to the organisation, ensuring that the costs of obtaining and maintaining it are continually optimised 
  • Improve risk management 
  • Manage the capacity, availability and security of IT services and components 
  • Measure, assess and develop the Service Configuration Management practice capability in their organisation by using the ITIL Maturity Model 
ITIL® 4 Practitioner: IT Asset Management 

This practice module focuses on how to plan and manage the full lifecycle of all IT assets, to help the organisation maximise value, control costs, manage risks, support decision-making about the purchase, re-use, retirement, and disposal of IT assets, meet regulatory and contractual requirements.

 IT Asset Management enables professionals to: 

  • Ensure that the organisation has relevant information to enable informed decisions throughout the lifecycle of its IT assets 
  • Continually monitor and optimise the utilisation and maintenance of IT assets 
  • Increase compliance with legal and regulatory requirements 
  • Increase alignment of IT investments with evolving business objectives and needs 
  • Measure, assess and develop the IT Asset Management practice capability in their organisation by using the ITIL Maturity Model 

Learning Outcomes

ITIL 4 Specialist: Plan, Implement and Control enables professionals to: 

  • Define the key concepts, principles, value and challenges of ITIL 4’s five management practices 
  • Ensure stakeholders understand the strategic and operational requirements to co-create value and achieve business goals 
  • Integrate the practices in the organisation’s value streams 
  • Understand the interfaces and synergies across these five practices 
  • Apply metrics and practice success factors to improve performance 
  • Measure, assess and develop the capability of the various practices covered by using the ITIL Maturity Model. 

    Who should attend

    IT Operations, IT Managers, IT Service Managers, Product Managers and Owners.

      Prerequisites

      ITIL 4 Foundation certification is a pre-requisite for this course. 

      To achieve the ITIL 4 Practice Manager designation,, you will need to have completed a combined ITIL Practice Manager bundle plus the ITIL Specialist: Create, Deliver and Support module. Or you will need to have completed 5 individual practices plus the ITIL Specialist: Create, Deliver and Support module.

      Exam & Certification

      This course prepares participants for the examination leading to the ITIL® 4 Specialist: Plan, Implement and Control.

      • A 90-minute, 60 question, multiple-choice exam is administered by an independent examination body, PeopleCert.
      • A passing mark of 65% is required to receive your certificate. 

      The exam is provided as an online examination voucher, upon completing your course you will receive an email from PeopleCert with information on how to register and schedule your exam. The examination is 90 minutes, please allow for an additional 30 minutes for set up and authentication. You will require a photo identification, quiet space, webcam, speakers and a reliable internet connection. 

      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, we do recommend you complete your examination as close to the course date as you can – this is when the information is fresh and relevant. 

      Course Material & Inclusions

      This course comes with access to PeopleCert’s official training e-materials. The Learner kit includes;

      • Course workbooks/slideshow for students to download, or view on laptop or tablet devices 
      • Official AXELOS ITIL practice exams  
      • Quick reference guide to assist with exam preparation 

      ITIL® 4 Specialist: Plan, Implement & Control online exam voucher, valid for 12-months from date of issue.

      A Take2 exam re-sit is included if there is a 'failure' result from the first attempt. Take2 will not be available from a missed or absent exam attempt.  

      The official ITIL 4 publication available from PeopleCert is included as an eBook.  This will be provided on the first morning of the course as part of your PeopleCert exam voucher. 

      Recent customers

      An amazing instructor who explained the content very clearly and at a very good pace. This was a good balance and approach. I found the worked examples very practical and very relatable to the Defence industry sector I work in.

      Mary W.

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