An excellent supplement to any ITIL 4 High-velocity IT training course ITIL® 4 High-velocity IT (HVIT) – Your companion to the ITIL 4 Managing Professional HVIT certification is a study guide designed to help students pass the ITIL® 4 High-velocity IT module.

ITIL is a widely adopted body of knowledge and best practices for successful IT Service Management that links with training and certification.

If you read through this book and still dont believe there is a critical need for IT Service Management then good luck seeing if you can survive in IT for the next 5 years. Agile, DevOps, Lean IT, Virtualization, Application Lifecycle Management, Cloud Computing and many other technologies are rapidly pulling IT in many directions. These modern ways of operating IT to cope with a world of rapid change will not go away. Somehow they need to be pulled together to avoid the chaos. Service Management is the glue needed to hold these all together. There is no IT value for the business until the point a service is received. For this reason, this book is written for IT leaders, managers and practitioners from a Service Management perspective. Having the best development practices, be it Agile, DevOps or others means little if a service is not delivered to the business. When they need it. High Velocity ITSM is about transitioning the IT Organization from traditional waterfall slower service development and support to a service delivery organization operating at high velocity. This book provides practical guidance for: ? Transitioning IT towards high velocity ITSM ? Using Agile and DevOps for rapid service build ? Using Lean IT to operate at high velocity ? Streamlining your ITSM management processes ? Building a Lean IT CSI Program ? Learning and applying modern IT methods and much more!

Ideal guidance for IT professionals who are responsible for managing the direction and strategy of their IT team or organisation. This book helps you understand the Digital and IT Strategy module towards Strategic Leader, as well as provide daily expert reference guidance for day-to-day problems.

ITIL® 4 Essentials contains everything you need to know to pass the ITIL 4 Foundation Certificate, plus more. It covers practices and concepts that are not addressed as part of the Foundation syllabus, making it ideal for newly qualified practitioners. This second edition has been updated to align with amendments to the ITIL® 4 Foundation syllabus.

ITIL®4 Specialist: High Velocity IT explores the convergence between business and IT, providing candidates with a specialised insight into the ways in which digital organisations and digital operating models function through a fast-paced environment. By highlighting the difference between IT transformation and digital transformation, the ITIL 4 Specialist High Velocity IT module enables the identification of new opportunities for digital investment, leading to significant business enablement. Embedding effective digital services at its core, it will provide candidates with all the tools they need to update their skills for the digital era. At the same time, it will enable organisations to make the right investments, in order to meet and exceed business goals. Encouraging IT and digital professionals to refine their abilities by increasing the speed and improving the quality of service delivery, the module focuses on creating greater value by promoting new methods of working and challenging existing ways of thinking. It encompasses cutting-edge digital technology to optimise end-user services and implement design-thinking, facilitating the construction of complex, yet adaptive, systems. This module covers a range of innovative working methods, such as DevOps practices and Lean and Agile approaches. It is designed to help bridge the gap between development and operational practices, and best support digital delivery from optimisation to radical transformation.

ITIL® 4 Managing Professional Courseware ITIL 4 Managing Professional (ITIL MP) consists of four modules and is the next level of ITIL 4 to be released after ITIL 4 Foundation. ITIL MP targets IT practitioners working within technology and digital teams across businesses. The Managing Professional (MP) stream provides practical and technical knowledge about how to run successful IT-enabled services, teams and workflows. The Managing Professional Transition module is designed to allow ITIL v3 candidates to easily transition to ITIL 4. They can get the ITIL 4 Managing Professional designation through one course and one exam. The material includes; • Updated glossaries with highlighted changes for ‘Create, Deliver & Support’, ‘Drive Stakeholder Value’ and ‘Direct, Plan & Improve’ • New diagram packs with annotations for ‘Create, Deliver & Support’, ‘Drive Stakeholder Value’ and ‘Direct, Plan & Improve’ • Updated syllabi with highlighted changes for ‘Create, Deliver & Support’, ‘Drive Stakeholder Value’ and ‘Direct, Plan & Improve’ • The ‘High Velocity IT’ manuscript, syllabus, glossary and diagram pack remain unchanged • Practices Overviews and the product brochure remain unchanged • An up-to-date Quick Reference Guide with all the information you need • Updated Core Manuscripts, for ‘Create, Deliver & Support’, ‘Drive Stakeholder Value’ and ‘Direct, Plan & Improve’ • While the changes are quite large, they have been made for streamlining or refinement only • There have been no changes to the examinable content or the key concepts 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.