The course outline is based on the latest syllabus from the ITIL® Official Accreditor.

Service Design Course Syllabus

Course Contents

Introduction and Overview

• Purpose and goals
• Scope of service design
• Doing it right the first time
• Designing new and changed service

Key Service Design Principles

Five aspects of service design

• Designing service solutions
• Designing supporting systems and the service portfolio
• Technology architectures, processes and design aspects
• Measurement, methods and metrics
• Service-oriented architecture principles

Holistic service design

• Design activities and their constraints
• The importance of balanced design
• Service requirements, business requirements and drivers

Four Ps of Design

• People
• Products
• Processes
• Partners

Service Design Processes

Service catalog management

• Providing a central source of information on IT services delivered to the business by the service provider
• Ensuring the business can view an accurate and consistent picture of IT services available, including details and status

Service level management

• Negotiating, agreeing and documenting appropriate IT service targets with the business
• Monitoring and producing reports on delivery against agreed level of service

Capacity management

• Matching capacity of IT to agreed business demands
• Right resource, right time, right cost

Availability management

• Ensuring that availability targets are measured and achieved in a cost-effective manner
• Building availability into the design

IT service continuity management

• Maintaining ongoing recovery capability to match agreed needs, requirements and time scales
• Developing service continuity and recovery plans
• Aligning plans with business needs over time

Primary Activities of Service Design

Technology-related activities

• Requirements engineering: requirement types, activities and techniques
• Data and information management activities
• Techniques within application management
• Investigating service design requirements

Achieving balance between design and existing strategies

• Ensuring inclusion of governance and security controls
• Assembling the service design package
• Producing, maintaining and revising all services, design processes and documents
• Liaising with other design and planning activities
• Aligning with corporate and IT strategies

Organizing Service Design

• Roles appropriate within service design
• Functional role analysis and the use of the RACI matrix
• Defining service design responsibilities
• Aligning information security with business security
• Managing suppliers to ensure quality and value

Service Design and Technology

• Technology considerations for service design
• The tools that benefit service design
• Requirements for service design

Implementation Challenges and Risks

• The six-stage implementation approach
• Measurements of service design
• Outlining the challenges and risks facing service design
• Establishing critical success factors and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Developing risk-benefit analyses

The ITIL® Official Accreditor changes the course syllabus periodically and we as an Accredited Training Organization must keep current with the latest version of the syllabus.  For the latest version of the course syllabus visit the ITIL® Official Site.

Our course is updated as soon as the ITIL® Official Accreditor has made a change to the syllabus to ensure that student is studying the material that is in scope.

Our course is designed to be true to the ITIL® books.  You will learn core ITIL® content.